Director, Construction Management & Field Execution

HF Sinclair•Dallas, KS

About The Position

The Director, Construction Management & Field Execution leads enterprise construction strategy, standards, and execution governance for capital projects, turnarounds, outages, and complex industrial work. The role strengthens owner-side construction management and contractor performance while improving construction readiness, safety, cost, schedule, quality, and closeout discipline across a multi-site industrial organization. This leader establishes enterprise construction standards, field execution expectations, governance, and owner accountabilities across sites and business units. The position oversees capital projects, turnaround-integrated work, and high-risk field execution; aligns stakeholders across project, operations, maintenance, engineering, procurement, EHS, quality, and contractor organizations; and develops construction management capability through site leaders, project managers, and contractor oversight resources. The role champions safe, compliant field execution and leads construction readiness, planning, execution governance, performance reporting, cost and commercial stewardship, contractor strategy, quality, and field assurance. It works with project management, project controls, and supply chain to improve execution certainty, cost predictability, contractor performance, and business decision-making. The position supervises approximately 2 to 4 direct reports, and up to 10 direct reports during turnarounds. It is office based, with warehouse and refinery environment exposure, travel up to 10% by land or air, and up to 60% of time in a petroleum refinery environment. HF Sinclair offers a comprehensive benefits package and describes its culture through the values of Safety, Integrity, Teamwork, Ownership, and Inclusion.

Requirements

At least 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.
Bachelor’s degree in construction management, construction engineering, or another engineering discipline.
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.
Enterprise-minded leadership, influence, collaboration, and accountability.
Visible field leadership committed to safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence.
Effective communication skills, including translating complex execution challenges into business decisions and priorities.
Proven ability to develop talent, build capability, lead change, improve predictability, and deliver measurable business value.

Nice To Haves

Five or more years leading managers, construction organizations, contractors, or multidisciplinary 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.
Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), AACE, advanced degree, or equivalent certification.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
Resolve complex execution issues involving contracts, quality, safety, productivity, performance, rework, and nonconformance.
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.
Establish contractor expectations for 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.
Perform special assignments or tasks assigned by the manager from time to time.
Supervise approximately 2 to 4 direct reports, and during turnarounds up to 10 direct reports.