Manager, Logistics Operations
About the role
HF Sinclair is seeking a Manager, Logistics Operations located in Dallas, TX. This position oversees and manages multiple aspects and activities of renewables and feedstock logistics, including overseeing personnel activities to ensure all logistics activities are executed in a timely and prudent manner.
Responsibilities
- Oversees end-to-end product and feedstock movement and distribution activities, ensuring timely execution, cross‑functional coordination, and accurate downstream processes, including invoicing.
- Manages the HFS renewables rail fleet.
- Develops and executes operational strategies while identifying and implementing continuous‑improvement opportunities to optimize product and feedstock movement, enhance efficiency, and support commercial value.
- Builds and maintains effective working relationships with internal teams and external partners—including customers, suppliers, terminals, and third‑party providers—to support reliable and efficient product distribution and feedstock aggregation.
- Leads and develops departmental personnel while managing performance, processes, and outcomes to achieve defined service levels, cost targets, and on‑time delivery performance while improving overall business profitability.
- Ensures all required transportation assets are in place to support both customer and interplant shipments.
- Maintains close communication with the VP, Commercial, and other key personnel, keeping all informed of conditions, activities, and trends that may impact the business and ability to capture market values.
- Prepares input for weekly planning meetings.
- Maximizes effective use of all IT programs and applications.
- Reviews invoices to ensure proper payment.
- Completes special assignments or tasks as directed by manager.
Requirements
- Minimum ten years’ experience in the rail industry with an in‑depth understanding of Class 1 manifest rail operations and experience in network design and implementation.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft products.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to multi‑task.
- Ability to handle situations involving product specification conflicts, refinery/logistical problems, and human error causing product outages.
- Strong organizational, leadership, written and verbal skills, effective delegation, negotiation, and forward‑thinking abilities.
- Ability to communicate across multiple department lines and manage third‑party locations.
Preferred Experience
- Understanding of product marketing.
- Understanding of refining procedures.
Education
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in business, business administration, logistics concentration, or a technical discipline is required. A combination of relevant education and significant industry experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility
Responsible for the direct supervision of staff and managerial employees.
Work Conditions
- Office based.
- May require up to 20% travel depending on land and air.
- Subject to varying road and weather conditions.
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Paid Time‑Off
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with match
- Educational Reimbursement
- Parental Bonding Time
- Employee Discounts
About HF Sinclair Corporation
HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company that produces and markets high‑value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel and other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and neighboring Plains states. The company supplies high‑quality fuels to more than 1,500 branded stations and licenses the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations. Subsidiaries produce and market base oils and specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, and export to over 80 countries. Renewable diesel is produced at facilities in Wyoming and Artesia, New Mexico. HF Sinclair also provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to its refineries and the petroleum industry.