Safety Intern

Sonneborn, an HF Sinclair company, is seeking a motivated Safety Intern to join our Petrolia, Pennsylvania team. The Safety Intern supports the site’s Safety team by assisting with the organization, maintenance, and accuracy of safety documentation and digital resources. The position is designed for an early-career college student interested in learning how safety systems, document management, and communication workflows contribute to a strong and compliant safety culture.

• Assist with the review, update, and organization of safety procedures, work instructions, SOPs, and other controlled documents to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
• Support document control activities, including version management, periodic reviews, record retention, and maintenance of document indexes and databases.
• Assist in maintaining and updating safety information systems, including SharePoint sites, document libraries, forms, and related records.
• Support data management activities by conducting record audits, verifying data accuracy, and preparing reports, summaries, and presentation materials.
• Assist with industrial hygiene monitoring activities, including air sampling, noise monitoring, heat stress evaluations, confined space atmospheric testing, and other exposure assessments.
• Support personal protective equipment (PPE) assessments and related safety initiatives.
• Participate in workplace safety audits, inspections, observations, and corrective action follow-up activities.
• Assist with respiratory protection program activities, including respirator fit testing.
• Support safety communications, training materials, alerts, and employee awareness initiatives.
• Perform additional environmental, health, and safety (EHS) projects and administrative activities as assigned.

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

• Currently pursuing an associate or bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety and Health.
• Completion of junior level courses is preferred.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow document templates and formatting standards.
• Solid written communication and proofreading abilities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365, especially Word, Excel, and SharePoint.
• Organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple documents and deadlines simultaneously.
• Professional communication and willingness to collaborate with Safety leadership and procedure owners.
• Familiarity with OSHA terminology or basic safety concepts.
• Experience with controlled document systems, SharePoint metadata, or file taxonomy.
• Exposure to incident tracking systems or learning management systems (LMS).

Petroleum refinery and driver-based environment including but not limited to chemical, pressure vessels, tanks, rotating equipment, working in confined spaces, and exposure to risk of electrical shock. Subject to all weather and varying road conditions. Occasionally required to work long hours, which may include nights, weekends, holidays for regularly scheduled maintenance and emergency work and support as well as on-call availability.

Job conditions require standing, walking, sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, lifting or carrying up to 50 lbs., climbing up to 200 ft, perceive color differences, required to wear personal protective equipment as needed and a respirator in emergency situations (beards are not permitted). Depending on location, you must satisfactorily complete a comprehensive medical physical examination. Job conditions may require twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, reaching or grasping, and working in confined spaces as permitted.

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.