Crude Trader

Basic Function

HF Sinclair is looking for a Crude Trader in Midland ,Texas who can lead the merchant crude and leasing trading actives for the company and optimizes and re-optimizes the crude position and executes crude supply trading strategies. Recognized as an expert within the company.

Job Duties

• Collects and analyzes market research to verify price information and to identify other potential purchasing opportunities.
• Monitors and evaluates crude market to recommend new trading opportunities. Develops and executes lease crude supply and transportation strategy.
• Identifies new and maintains current client base and develops and implements strategies to expand and establish new clients.
• Leads negotiations of crude oil purchases and/or location exchanges at the lease with producers at competitive market price.
• Maximizes profits from merchant crude transportation assets and options by adding/improving capabilities that lower transportation costs and increase market value.
• Leads the development, evaluating, and executing growth strategies for lease crude operations
• Liaises between management and crude supply and trading counter-parties to inform and update them on regular operations.
• Leads the managing of day-to-day lease purchasing activities.
• Manages the most advantageous and environmentally safe transportation method for purchased oil.
• Writes and reviews contracts and initiates client credit and assists with enforcement of compliance with credit terms.
• Researches and recommends resolution of routine problems to more experienced traders or management relating to the purchase, transportation, or receipt of crude oil.
• Acts as liaison and supports other company departments with crude oil transactions. Collaborates closely with refinery management and planners to supply optimal crude slate to the refineries.
• Travels on occasion into field to retrieve sample of oil from tank for testing purposes.

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

Experience

Seven to Fifteen years or more of experience in crude supply and trading, financial analysis, and logistics in the oil and gas industry is required.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Refining experience are preferred.

Education Level

A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in business or technical related fields is required.

PREFERRED EDUCATIONAL:

MBA preferred.

Required Skills

Ability to effectively communicate with others, both written and verbal communication, and the ability to network and develop relationships with others. Excellent team building and collaboration skills. Ability to influence the organization with facts based data, the ability to build consensus around plan and resulting actions. Advanced reading and writing skills, with the ability to perform intermediate mathematical calculation.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility

None.

Work Conditions

Office based with up to 15% travel required by land or air.

Physical Requirements

Job conditions require sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, reaching or grasping, lifting and/or carrying up to 10lbs, perceiving color differences. Job conditions may require standing, and walking.

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 ("HF Sinclair"), 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 in 19 states 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 1,300 Sinclair branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the country. 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. Through its subsidiaries, HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming. HF Sinclair also owns a 47% limited partner interest and a non-economic general partner interest in Holly Energy Partners, L.P., a master limited partnership that provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to the petroleum industry, including HF Sinclair subsidiaries.

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.