Refinery Planner

Leads refinery planning and optimization activities including Short Term Operating Plan (STOP) stewardship, oil flow planning, inventory management, economic analysis, and constraint identification under minimal supervision. Acts as the primary interface between refinery operations and regional planning teams, providing refinery capabilities, constraints, risks, and opportunities that support regional planning decisions while ensuring refinery execution aligns with approved operating plans.

• Owns refinery operating assumptions, constraints, and opportunities for in-month and out-month operations.
• Identifies, evaluates, and communicates the impact of refinery constraints, risks, and opportunities on in-month and out-month operating plans.
• Coordinates with Operations, Engineering, and other refinery personnel to align operating plans, constraints, opportunities, and execution priorities.
• Provides refinery operating assumptions, constraints, opportunities, and inventory outlooks to support regional planning and optimization activities.
• Participates in Regional Planning discussions, representing refinery capabilities, constraints, risks, and opportunities to support integrated planning and optimization decisions.
• Owns refinery Short Term Operating Plan (STOP) communication, implementation, and stewardship.
• Communicates economic priorities, operating targets, and optimization opportunities to support refinery execution of approved operating plans.
• Performs economic and operational evaluations to support refinery operating decisions, regional planning activities, opportunity identification, and constraint mitigation efforts.
• Develops and communicates refinery inventory targets and coordinates actions to maintain safe and economically optimized operating envelopes.
• Develops and maintains refinery outage, turnaround, and contingency oil flow plans.
• Participates in tactical leadership and planning forums and serves as a planning and optimization resource for site personnel.
• Occasionally requires off-hours support to Operations, Commercial, and third-party stakeholders.

Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their supervisor, as determined from time to time in their sole and complete discretion.

A minimum of eight years of on-the-job experience in refinery operations, process engineering, or other relevant experience is required.

A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience in lieu of a four-year degree, is required.

• Understands supply chain economics and refining processes.
• Knowledge of petroleum qualities and lab testing methods is beneficial.
• Ability to provide clear direction to multiple parties regarding feasibility while keeping economic considerations in the forefront.
• Capability to deal with various issues at the same time and make decisions with incomplete information.
• Resilient under pressure.
• This position is on the front line guiding the site to meet customer commitments and maximize margin.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft products and ability to learn to use other relevant software (Petro, Spiral Software, BLEND).
• Strong communication skills, and ability to perform mathematical calculations.
• Ability to foster strong teamwork and maintain good working relationships.

Primarily office based, but some field presence required at times. Petroleum refinery, and plant environment including but not limited chemicals, pressure vessels, tanks and rotating equipment. Subject to all weather and varying road conditions.

Job conditions sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, reaching or grasping, lifting and/or carrying up to 10lbs, and perceiving color differences. Job conditions may require standing and walking.

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.

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.