Unit Coordinator

Basic Function

HF Sinclair is seeking a Unit Coordinator in El Dorado, KS who will be responsible for ensuring the unit operates safely and effectively, building capabilities on the shift team, optimizing daily operations to meet targets, and seeking mid to long-term solutions to reduce risk and optimize refinery performance.

Job Duties

• Ensure the refinery runs safely and effectively through the setting and monitoring of long-term targets and standards that achieve operating objectives set by planning and leadership.
• Manage the short-term risks for the unit by driving daily maintenance by reviewing, approving, and prioritizing work orders in conjunction with the operations maintenance coordinator.
• Manage the refinery risk profile by setting T/A, outage, project, and long-term scope & priorities to reduce the probability of LPO and incidents, including management of assigned cost centers.
• Ensure that the shift organization develops the competency necessary to run the refinery safely and efficiently through training assurance and unit-specific training programs.
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for the assigned unit, assist with unit-specific troubleshooting and optimization while also taking ownership of developing unit-specific processes, standards, and procedures.
• Represent Operations as the stakeholder in the Scoping phase of projects from FEL 0 to FEL 2.
• Supervise the Process Area Specialist; delegate and assure tasks that ensure operations in the assigned unit comply with PSM and OEMS requirements.

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of refinery operations background and general knowledge of maintenance protocols is required.

Education Level

• A minimum of a High School Diploma is required.

Required Skills

• Ability to effectively lead and influence without direct authority.
• Ability to optimize production through identifying and solving problems related to the operation of our assets within assigned areas.
• Ability to handle high visibility projects and activities, high-pressure situations, and long hours while maintaining a positive and constructive attitude.
• Team player with ability to effectively communicate with others through written and verbal communication.
• Ability to constructively interact with all levels of staff including engineers, operators, shift maintenance personnel, and refinery leadership.
• Intermediate computer skills, intermediate reading and writing skills, and the ability to perform intermediate mathematical calculations.

Preferred Skills

• Leadership training for hourly or operations personnel.
• Special training and/or skill demonstration in computer software.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility

• Responsible for the direct supervision of up to 4 employees.

Work Conditions

• Office and Refinery/Industrial environment based with up to 5% travel by land and air required.
• Petroleum refinery, warehouse/plant environment, out-of-doors, and driver-based environment, including but not limited to chemicals, pressure vessels, tanks, and rotating equipment.
• Subject to all weather, temperatures, and varying road conditions.
• Subject to occasional weekend and after-hour call-outs, and working in confined spaces.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Paid Time-Off
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with match
• Employee Discounts

Physical Requirements

• 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 50lbs, pushing and/or pulling 25lbs, climbing up to 150ft.
• Ability to operate and drive all assigned company vehicles at company standard insurance rates, valid state drivers license and proof of insurance required.
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (beards not permitted).
• Strenuous physical activity.

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 located 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 in other neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,500 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the country. In addition, subsidiaries of HF Sinclair produce and market base oils and other specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands, and export products to more than 80 countries. Through its subsidiaries, HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in Artesia, New Mexico. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage, and throughput services to its refineries and the petroleum industry.

Equal Opportunity Employer

HF Sinclair Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other prohibited ground of discrimination.