Director, Construction Management & Field Execution

HF Sinclair•Dallas, TX

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, and promotes construction readiness, safety, cost, schedule, quality, and closeout discipline across a multi-site industrial organization. The director establishes construction standards and field execution expectations across sites and business units; oversees capital projects, turnaround-integrated work, and high-risk field execution; and aligns cross-functional teams and contractors. The role drives field safety and regulatory compliance, improves construction readiness and planning, strengthens execution governance and performance reporting, and oversees cost, change, and commercial stewardship. It also establishes contractor expectations and oversees field assurance, quality, mechanical completion, turnover, and lessons learned. The position supervises approximately 2 to 4 direct reports and, during turnarounds, up to ten direct reports. It is office based, with warehouse and refinery environment exposure. Travel is up to 10% by land or air, and up to 60% of work time is required in a petroleum refinery environment. The role may involve all weather and varying road conditions. HF Sinclair describes a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, vision, and dental insurance; paid time off; a 401(k) retirement plan with match; educational reimbursement; parental bonding time; and employee discounts. Benefit eligibility is governed by official plan documents.

Requirements

At least 15 years of progressive construction management, capital project, turnaround, outage, maintenance execution, or field leadership experience in heavy industry or a similar sector.
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 spending.
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 that drives results through influence, collaboration, and accountability.
Visible field leadership and commitment to safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence.
Effective communication skills, including translating complex execution challenges into business decisions and priorities.
Ability to develop talent and lead change to build capability, improve predictability, and deliver measurable business value.
Ability to perform job conditions involving standing, walking, sitting, talking or hearing, visual inspections, precise finger and hand movements, reaching or grasping, and climbing up to 250 feet.
Ability to wear required personal protective equipment; beards are not permitted.

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.
Knowledge of construction readiness, constructability, Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), WorkFace Planning, commissioning, mechanical completion, turnover, and project closeout.
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.
Ability to influence and collaborate with executive leadership, operations, maintenance, engineering, project controls, procurement, EHS, contractors, and other key stakeholders.
PE, 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 field-first safety, including 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 to support timely business decisions.
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 selection, mobilization, supervision, productivity, safety, quality, and demobilization expectations.
Oversee inspection and testing, turnover documentation, punch-list closure, preservation, and mechanical completion.
Lead field audits, readiness assessments, contractor scorecards, health checks, and enterprise lessons learned.
Perform other special assignments or tasks assigned by the manager from time to time.
Supervise approximately 2 to 4 direct reports and, during turnarounds, up to ten direct reports.