Manager, EHS Business Partner
About the role
The Manager, IT EH&S Business Partner provides leadership, partnership, direction, and guidance to teams across multiple lines of business to ensure business goals are met through effective provision of technology solutions and services. This role engages with key stakeholders to develop and align medium- to long-term strategic plans and capability roadmaps with HFSinclair objectives, maximizing value capture for the function. Acting as a trusted lead business advisor, the role provides oversight and guidance for successful project delivery and influences IT service delivery. It also markets and promotes IT services while managing and prioritizing demand effectively.
The Business Partner will manage collaboration with senior leaders related to Environmental, Health, & Safety (EH&S) and oversee both direct and indirect teams to ensure delivery and sustainability of the IT portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Serves as the primary IT business partner for Environmental, Health, & Safety (EH&S), building strong relationships with EH&S leaders, site stakeholders, operations, and corporate functions to understand business priorities and technology needs.
- Partners with EH&S stakeholders to define business outcomes, document requirements, prioritize demand, and develop technology roadmaps supporting environmental compliance, health and safety performance, risk reduction, and operational excellence.
- Leads assigned EH&S IT initiatives from intake through delivery, ensuring scope, business case, resource needs, risks, dependencies, and success measures are clearly understood and aligned with business objectives.
- Provides business-facing ownership for EH&S applications, including Enablon, Cority, and related systems, ensuring solutions are configured, supported, enhanced, and governed to meet current and emerging business requirements.
- Facilitates cross-functional collaboration between EH&S, IT, cybersecurity, data, infrastructure, vendors, and managed service providers to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, and supportable solutions.
- Translates business requirements into functional designs, reporting needs, integration requirements, data flows, and support models for EHS applications and related platforms.
- Supports governance of sensitive EH&S data, including regulatory, environmental, safety, personal, and other confidential information, ensuring appropriate controls, compliance considerations, and data quality practices are incorporated into solutions.
- Identifies opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve EH&S business processes through technology, automation, analytics, and improved user experience.
- Develops and maintains executive-ready communications, project updates, decision materials, process documentation, and value statements to support stakeholder alignment and investment decisions.
- Leads business users, project team members, and support resources to ensure adoption, clear accountability, effective knowledge transfer, and sustainable long-term support.
- Ensures EH&S technology solutions comply with corporate IT governance, cybersecurity requirements, architecture standards, change management practices, and support procedures.
- Handles special assignments or tasks as determined by the supervisor.
Requirements
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in information technology, business relationship management, business analysis, application delivery, or equivalent experience.
- Five of those 10 years should include experience supporting EH&S, operations, refining, pipeline, manufacturing, or other regulated industrial environments.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Accounting, Engineering, or a related field (required).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting EH&S business processes, regulatory compliance programs, refinery or pipeline operations, enterprise EH&S platforms, business transformation initiatives, and vendor or consulting partner delivery.
- Master’s degree in Information Systems or a related discipline.
Skills
- General understanding of corporate IT governance practices and handling of regulatory compliance, including State, Federal, and various taxing authorities.
- Ability to lead business process improvement initiatives and implementations in Environmental, Health, & Safety.
- Advanced knowledge of implementing and supporting business applications, including Enablon, Cority, and other EH&S supporting applications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to perform intermediate mathematical calculations.
- Preferred: Environmental, Health, & Safety experience in the Oil & Gas refinery and pipeline industry.
Supervisory Responsibility
Responsible for managing approximately three to six exempt-level professional employees as well as contract staff for enterprise programs.
Work Conditions
Office-based role with up to 10% travel by land and air required. Driver-based environment, subject to all weather and varying road conditions.
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Paid Time-Off
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match
- Educational Reimbursement
- Parental Bonding Time
- Employee Discounts
About the Company
HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company producing and marketing high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel, and lubricants and specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington, and Utah. The company provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage, and throughput services and markets refined products in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, and neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to over 1,750 branded stations and licenses the Sinclair brand to more than 350 additional locations. The company also produces renewable diesel at facilities in Wyoming and New Mexico and markets base oils and specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands, exporting to more than 80 countries.