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Environmental Specialist
Job Location:
Job Location:
Artesia, NM - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
25 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
22 October 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Basic Function
HF Sinclair in Artesia NM is seeking a Enviornmental Specialist to conducts environmental assignments and duties for the Environmental Department under minimal supervision. Directs or leads the work of others from time-to-time.
Job Duties
- certifications ensuring accuracy completeness and on-time submittal
- Provide technical guidance and ongoing support for the Refinerys Title V air permit including compliance determinations monitoring requirements deviation tracking and reporting
- Contribute to continuous improvement of air compliance programs by strengthening workflows procedures training materials and knowledgesharing practices to improve reliability efficiency and sustained compliance performance
- Support and collaborate with operations engineering maintenance and environmental peers to build organizational capability and resilience
- Engage professionally and effectively with regulatory agencies through written correspondence meetings and verbal communications representing the refinery with sound technical judgment and credibility
- May manage the performance of air quality related work efforts which include the oversight of NSPS MACT EI NSR and Title V programs
- May prepare reports pursuant to a consent decree and various permit conditions with respect to EPCRA CERCLA and TSCA
- May oversee budgeting costs associated with air quality compliance and contractor/consultant work products
- May coordinate routine modeling and tracking of anti-backsliding provisions of the fuels toxic baseline and related fuels regulations
Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their supervisor as determined from timeto time in their sole and complete discretion
Experience
A minimum of eight years of job-related processing experience required. Some assignments may require at least five years of air quality experience with the majority of the experience being in a refinery setting.
Preferred Expereince:
Experience in oil refining processes preferred.
Education Level
A minimum of a Bachelors Degree in an environmental sciences or related field is required.
Required Skills
- Strong foundational knowledge of air quality laws regulations and standards including federal NESHAP/MACT/NSPS requirements and applicable state and local air district regulations for complex manufacturing facilities
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities meet demanding regulatory deadlines and execute work efficiently in a fastpaced operating environment with changing priorities
- Ability to work effectively across disciplines and organizational levels including collaboration with operations engineering maintenance legal technical specialists and management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking capabilities.
- Advanced working knowledge of environmental air quality regulations required depending on assignment
- Ability to perform emissions calculations preferably with a practical understanding of refinery processing programs
- Advanced understanding of oil refining processes (process flow diagrams/mechanical flow sheets chemical phase separations and reactions)
Preferred Skills:
- Strong data analysis skills and experience working with emissions compliance or monitoring datasets using tools such as Excel or environmental data systems
- Familiarity with community right-to-know and risk management rules and/or experience with fuels compliance
- Strong time management and organizational skills
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility
May lead the work of others. Responsible for overseeing contractors within the facility.
Work Conditions
Office and plant based with travel required up to 25% of the time by land or air. Petroleum refinery warehouse/plant environment including but not limited to chemicals pressure vessels tanks and rotating equipment. Required to work in all temperatures including outdoors. Subject to varying road and weather 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
Physical Requirements
Job conditions require standing walking sitting twisting stooping couching kneeling working in confined spaces talking or hearing making visual inspections making precise hand and finger movements reaching or grasping lifting and/or carrying up to 50lbs pushing and/or pulling up to 50lbs climbing up to 200ft perceiving color differences ability to wear personal protective equipment (beards not permitted) and strenuous physical activity.
Our One HF Sinclair 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 other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas Oklahoma New Mexico Wyoming Washington and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S. the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1500 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the 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. Through its subsidiaries HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in Artesia New Mexico. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation terminalling storage and throughput services to its refineries and the petroleum industry.
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.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
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