Director – Construction Management & Field Execution

Basic Function

Leads enterprise construction strategy, standards, and execution governance for capital projects, turnarounds, outages, and complex industrial work. Strengthens owner-side construction management, contractor performance, construction readiness, safety, cost, schedule, quality, and closeout discipline across a multi-site industrial organization.

Job Duties

Lead Enterprise Construction Management

• Establish enterprise construction standards, field execution expectations, governance, and owner accountabilities across sites and business units.
• Provide oversight for capital projects, turnaround-integrated work, and high-risk field execution.
• Align Projects, Operations, Maintenance, Turnarounds, Project Controls, Engineering, Procurement, EHS, Quality, and Contractors.
• Develop construction management capability through site leaders, project managers, and contractor oversight resources.

Drive Safe, Compliant Field Execution

• Champion a field-first safety culture emphasizing critical controls, permit-to-work, energy isolation, critical lifts, confined space entry, SIMOPS, and stop-work authority.
• Ensure construction plans address applicable environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Drive incident learning, field observations, corrective actions, and safe work practices that protect people, assets, and the environment.

Improve Construction Readiness and Planning

• Lead readiness reviews covering constructability, work packaging, logistics, materials, access, sequencing, contractor strategy, and turnover requirements.
• Influence planning, schedules, estimates, contracting strategy, productivity assumptions, and execution risk before project sanction.
• Integrate capital projects, turnarounds, maintenance, operations, reliability, inspection, and commissioning plans.
• Challenge resource loading, site congestion, execution sequencing, and staffing assumptions to improve delivery certainty.

Strengthen Execution Governance and Performance

• Lead execution governance, progress reviews, risk escalation, contractor performance reviews, milestone assurance, and executive reporting.
• Ensure accurate reporting of progress, productivity, schedule performance, costs, change exposure, and forecast-to-complete.
• Integrate field execution data with project controls to support timely business decisions.
• Resolve complex execution issues involving contracts, quality, safety, productivity, performance, rework, and nonconformance.

Cost, Change, and Commercial Stewardship

• Oversee construction cost performance, earned value, change management, claims resolution, contingency usage, and forecast accuracy.
• Challenge inefficient spending, scope growth, productivity losses, and weak commercial controls.
• Partner with Project Management, Project Controls, and Supply Chain on contract strategy, bid evaluations, labor planning, contractor performance, and cost predictability.

Contractor Strategy, Quality, and Field Assurance

• Establish expectations for contractor selection, mobilization, supervision, productivity, safety, quality, and demobilization.
• Oversee inspection and testing, turnover documentation, punch-list closure, preservation, and mechanical completion.
• Lead field audits, readiness assessments, contractor scorecards, health checks, and lessons learned across the enterprise.

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

Experience

A minimum of 15 years of progressive construction management, capital project, turnaround, outage, maintenance execution, or field leadership experience in refining, petrochemical, chemical, renewable fuels, midstream, terminals, tanks, power, mining, or similar heavy industry.

Preferred Experience:

• 5+ years leading managers, construction organizations, contractors, or multi-discipline teams with accountability for safety, cost, schedule, quality, and productivity.
• Experience governing EPC, EPCM, construction management, and contractor execution models within operating industrial facilities.
• Strong knowledge of construction readiness, constructability, Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), WorkFace Planning, commissioning, mechanical completion, turnover, and project closeout.
• Demonstrated expertise in project controls, including scheduling, earned value, progress measurement, productivity analysis, forecasting, contingency management, and change control.
• Experience supporting large capital portfolios, turnarounds, outages, brownfield projects, and high-risk field activities including SIMOPS, critical lifts, confined space entry, hot work, and energy isolation.
• Strong commercial and contract management experience, including bid evaluation, contractor performance management, change management, claims avoidance, and cost control.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with executive leadership, operations, maintenance, engineering, project controls, procurement, EHS, contractors, and other key stakeholders.

Leadership Profile

• Enterprise-minded leader who drives results through influence, collaboration, and accountability.
• Visible field leader committed to safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence.
• Effective communicator capable of translating complex execution challenges into business decisions and priorities.
• Proven talent developer and change agent who builds capability, improves predictability, and delivers measurable business value.

Education Level

A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in construction management, Construction Engineering, or other Engineering discipline required.

Preferred Educational Level:

PE, PMP, AACE, advanced degree, or equivalent certification preferred

Required Skills

Ability to drive safety, environmental, quality, cost, schedule, and contractor performance across complex construction and capital project portfolios. Proven capability to improve project execution predictability, milestone achievement, and schedule performance. Strong cost management and change control skills, including forecasting, cost predictability, and mitigation of inefficient spend. Expertise in construction readiness, execution planning, and field productivity improvement. Experience managing turnover, mechanical completion, project closeout, and lessons learned processes. Ability to identify execution risks, remove constraints, and drive continuous improvement across multiple projects and sites.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility

Responsible for the supervision of approximately 2 to 4 direct reports and during turnarounds, up to ten direct reports.

Work Conditions

Office based with warehouse and refinery environment exposure with travel up to 10% of the time by land or air.  Up to 60% of time will be required to work in petroleum refinery environment.  Subject to all weather and varying road conditions

Benefits

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.

Physical Requirements

Job conditions require standing, walking, sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise finger and hand movements, reaching or grasping, climbing up to 250 ft, ability to wear personal protective equipment (beards not permitted) required. 

Our One HF Sinclair Culture:

HFS Culture

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.

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 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 Pacic 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.

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.