Director Project Controls

Leads a corporate project controls assurance model that establishes strategic direction, enterprise standards, governance, system ownership, reporting expectations, and independent oversight for Capital, Turnaround (TA), and Maintenance (XO) work. Enables site-based execution teams through centralized support functions that provide consistent tools, methods, analytics, training, planning discipline, risk and change management oversight, and assurance of cost, schedule, forecast, progress, and performance information used for timely decisions by site, functional, and corporate leadership.

• Own and govern enterprise project controls standards, processes, and reporting requirements, including cost, schedule, forecasting, risk, change management, progress measurement, and portfolio visibility.
• Provide independent assurance that projects consistently apply approved tools, systems, governance requirements, and reporting standards.
• Support site leadership through reviews of estimates, schedules, forecasts, resource plans, contractor performance, and project reporting to improve quality, consistency, and decision-making.
• Lead assurance reviews, FEL gate support, readiness assessments, benchmarking, health checks, and corrective-action follow-up for major capital projects.
• Drive standardization and governance of project controls systems, dashboards, reporting platforms, and data management processes across the enterprise.
• Establish planning, scheduling, risk, and change management expectations and ensure timely escalation of significant issues and forecast variances.
• Develop organizational capability through training, coaching, field engagement, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Capital, TA, Maintenance, and site leadership to resolve systemic issues, strengthen governance, and improve project performance.

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS:

• Communicate standards, governance requirements, escalation protocols, and reporting expectations clearly and consistently.
• Deliver accurate, timely, and reliable reporting that provides visibility to project cost, schedule, risk, progress, and forecast performance.
• Drive proactive decision support through analytics, benchmarking, portfolio insights, and performance trends.
• Ensure assurance reviews are completed with appropriate rigor and documented outcomes.
• Identify risks, gaps, and systemic issues early and recommend practical corrective actions.
• Promote consistent use of approved systems, tools, processes, and reporting practices across all sites.
• Build organizational capability through coaching, mentoring, resource planning, and community-of-practice development.
• Champion process and system improvements to enhance data quality, reporting efficiency, and portfolio visibility.

KEY DELIVERABLES / MEASURES OF SUCCESS:

• Standardized project controls governance, reporting, and assurance processes are consistently applied across the enterprise.
• Project controls systems, dashboards, templates, and reporting tools are governed, standardized, and continuously improved.
• Assurance reviews, schedule reviews, forecast reviews, and readiness assessments are completed on time and drive measurable action.
• Portfolio reporting provides clear visibility to performance trends, risks, opportunities, forecast accuracy, and milestone achievement.
• Significant cost, schedule, resource, risk, or data quality issues are identified early and appropriately escalated.
• Site capability, reporting reliability, process consistency, system adoption, and cross-fleet visibility demonstrate measurable improvement over time.

Perform other duties and special assignments assigned.

A minimum of 10+ years in Project Management/Project Controls, 5-10 years in leadership roles, and 5+ years in corporate assurance, governance, or related oversight functions.

A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, Quantity Surveying/Cost Engineering, Construction Engineering, or a related discipline.

Ability to solve day-to-day problems on projects as well as find and develop solutions for long range viability of projects at the refinery, and work and lead in a collaborative team environment. Advanced project engineering skills and training. Ability to develop and implement a project budget and stay on time and on budget. Intermediate computer skills, including word processing, spreadsheets and database. Self-starter. Ability to effectively communicate with others, both written and verbal communication. Advanced reading and writing skills, with the ability to perform complex mathematical calculations.

Provides leadership, implementation support, coaching, mentoring, and training to centralized project controls support resources and site-based project controls teams across the Capital, TA, and Maintenance (XO) fleets. Sets corporate assurance priorities, aligns support resources, monitors performance, reinforces accountability and standards, strengthens role competency expectations, supports resource planning, and develops site capability to meet corporate governance expectations and business needs.

Office and field based with up to 10% travel by land and air required. Petroleum refinery, warehouse/plant environment, out-of-doors environment, and driver based environment including but not limited to chemicals, pressure vessels, tanks, rotating equipment, loud noises and vibrations. Subject to all temperatures, weather and varying road conditions.

HF Sinclair offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefits include, but are not limited to, the following:

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

We are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment, ensuring our employees have the resources needed to thrive professionally and personally. Benefit eligibility is governed by official plan documents, for more details visit Total Rewards.

Job conditions require sitting, 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 50lbs, climbing up to 200 ft, perceiving color differences, wearing personal protective equipment as needed. Job conditions may require standing and walking.

At HF Sinclair, we are united through our One HF Sinclair Culture, which is underpinned by our five core values of Safety, Integrity, Teamwork, Ownership and Inclusion. Developed to empower our people, our five core cultural values are at the heart of everything we do and extend to how we engage our stakeholders. These values influence our decisions, shape our behaviors and keep us connected across the entire organization. We maintain a true Safety culture for our employees, communities, environments and customers. Our goal is to make sure everyone returns home safely each day. We have a long-standing commitment to Integrity and ethical behavior and do what is right for our employees, investors, communities and the environment. We encourage employees to Step Up and Stand Out by championing a culture of Teamwork and Ownership. We foster a culture of Inclusion by encouraging diversity of experiences, viewpoints and backgrounds. What makes each of us different, together makes us stronger.

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 lubricants and specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to our refineries and the petroleum industry. HF Sinclair markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states and supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,750 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand to more than 350 additional locations throughout the country. HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in New Mexico. 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.