Metal Trades Technician

About the role

HF Sinclair in Sinclair, WY is seeking a Metal Trades Tech who performs skilled pipefitting, boilermaker work, welding, fabrication, and maintenance work on refinery process equipment and piping systems. Responsible for the installation, repair, modification, and inspection of piping, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, structural steel, tanks, and related refinery equipment. Works safely and efficiently to support refinery reliability, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Fabricates, installs, repairs, and maintains refinery piping systems, valves, flanges, supports, and associated equipment.
• Performs welding utilizing SMAW, GTAW (TIG), GMAW (MIG), FCAW, and oxy-acetylene cutting processes as required.
• Repairs and maintains pressure vessels, boilers, heat exchangers, towers, furnaces, tanks, and structural steel.
• Reads and interprets blueprints, isometrics, P&IDs, welding procedures, drawings, and specifications.
• Lays out, measures, cuts, fits, aligns, and assembles piping and structural components.
• Performs field fabrication, equipment modifications, and shop fabrication activities.
• Conducts welding and fabrication work in compliance with refinery standards, ASME, API, and applicable industry codes.
• Utilizes precision measuring instruments and alignment tools.
• Operates hand tools, power tools, welding equipment, cutting equipment, and fabrication machinery.
• Performs rigging, lifting, and material handling activities utilizing hoists, chain falls, cranes, and other lifting devices.
• Supports maintenance turnarounds, shutdowns, capital projects, and emergency repair work.
• Completes inspections of completed work to ensure quality, reliability, and code compliance.
• Maintains work records, inspection documentation, and maintenance reports.
• Follows all safety, environmental, and operating procedures, including permit requirements, confined space entry, hot work, and lockout/tagout procedures.
• Communicates effectively with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and contractor personnel.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Participates in refinery outages, turnarounds, and emergency response activities as required.
• Assists with equipment reliability improvements and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Performs special assignments or tasks assigned by the supervisor as determined from time to time.

Requirements

• Five (5) years of experience in industrial maintenance, refinery, petrochemical, mining, power generation, or heavy industrial environments preferred.
• Experience in pipe fabrication, vessel repair, welding, and structural steel work preferred.
• A minimum of a High School Diploma or GED.
• Job conditions require standing, walking, sitting, twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, reaching or grasping, lifting and/or carrying up to 50 lbs., pushing and/or pulling up to 50 lbs., climbing up to 100 ft., ability to operate and drive all assigned company vehicles at company standard insurance rates is essential, valid