Title: Turnaround Team Leader
Date:
Dec 18, 2025
Location:
Mississauga, ON, CA, L5J 2Y3
Basic Function
Petro-Canada Lubricants Inc. (PCLI), an HF Sinclair company, located in Mississauga, Ontario is seeking a full -time Turnaround Team Leader. Reporting to the Director of Maintenance, the Turnaround Team Leader is responsible for the safe, reliable, and cost-efficient planning, scheduling, and execution of all Turnaround (T/A) and major outage activities at the Mississauga Lubricants facility. This role drives schedule adherence, stringent cost management, and effective resource allocation throughout all T/A phases. The Turnaround Manager leads a cross-functional turnaround team and chairs both the T/A Steering Team (TAST) and T/A Strategy Committee (TASC) for major events, ensuring stakeholder alignment on scope, schedule, and budget while adhering to company standards, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
Job Duties
- Leads the full planning lifecycle of Turnarounds for the Mississauga facility: long range planning, scope definition, worklist freeze, risk register, materials/long-lead procurement, constructability, execution work packages, and ready for operations (RFO)/commissioning plans
- Leads turnaround readiness reviews and gate checks-ins per corporate standards
- Owns the turnaround budget, contingency, and cost forecasting; monitors daily cost performance and variance during execution phase
- Implements rigorous costs controls (earned value tracking, productivity metrics, spending forecasting, change orders tracking, etc…) to accurately predict Turnaround costs
- Ensures T/A estimates align to stage gate accuracies and AFE requirements
- Champion of a Zero Harm safety culture for Turnarounds; set expectations, drives hazard recognition and associated mitigations, incident reporting/investigations, and conducts field verifications to ensure compliance
- Ensure all work complies with company standards (including but not limited to HSE, PSM, QA/QC, MOC, etc.)
- Develop and maintain the Integrated Turnaround Schedule (ITS) across all disciplines
- Uses critical path and near-critical path management; conducts daily schedule adherence reviews and recovery planning
- Negotiates and manages contracts, change orders, and claims with a focus on optimizing productivity without compromising safety or quality
- Develops comprehensive resource plan to accommodate the T/A requirements including working with various contractors to forecast and secure the right resources (various crafts, specialty vendors, etc…) with an emphasis on productivity and compliance to T/A deliverables
- Lead T/A contractor teams and temporary resources (both hourly and salary) as necessary
- Collaborate with Labour Relations to uphold union contracts, grievance processes, and dispatch rules; maintains positive, respectful work relations
- Set craft density targets, crew mixes, and shift patterns; implement onboarding, training, and competency requirements
- Chair of the Turnaround Steering Team (down and in) and Turnaround Strategy Team (up and out)
- Align stakeholders on scope, constraints, risk profile, and KPIs; maintain transparent communication and single source of truth reporting
- Drives strong and effective partnerships across many departments and teams including corporate services to build, implement and share T/A best practices
- Leverages expertise and strategic insight to guide decisions and influence outcomes in a nonauthoritative leadership capacity
- Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, post-turnaround reviews, and standardized best practices
- Participate in corporate turnaround networks and associated industry association activities (AFPM, API, etc.) to share and foster a continuous improvement mindset. Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their supervisor, as determined from time to time in their sole and complete discretion
Experience
- 10+ years of experience in oil & gas (refining, petrochemical, upstream/midstream)
- 5+ years of experience/participation in turnarounds and/or major outages (preferably in a leadership role)
- 5+ years of formal leadership experience in an industrial setting (preferably in maintenance, turnaround or construction)
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or PMP certification is a strong asset
- Experience with turnaround best practices and tools (field mobility apps, progress tracking, analytics dashboards, etc…) is strongly preferred
- Lean/Agile or continuous improvement certifications (e.g., Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt) is preferred
Education Level
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, trade background, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Required Skills
- Proven leadership skillsets in both managing unionized/non-unionized workforces and/or large contractor teams in complex industrial settings
- Strong knowledge in turnaround planning systems and scheduling (Primavera P6 or equivalent), cost control, and QA/QC
- Strong knowledge of HSE/PSM/MOC procedures/processes, permit-to-work processes, isolation standards, and regulatory compliance
- Demonstrated success in stakeholder management, steering team governance, and cross-functional alignment
- Excellent communication (written/verbal), negotiation, and decision-making skills under time pressures
- Strong time management and organizational skills
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility
- Will have direct supervision of salaried personnel
- Indirect supervision of salaried and unionized hourly personnel in a large Turnaround event
Work Conditions
- Office based role with 10-15% in-field work in a day-to-day plant (refinery) environment
- In-field work will increase to 30-40% during T/A execution periods
- 5% travel by land and air required
Physical Requirements
- Job conditions require standing, walking, sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, lifting or carrying up to 25 lbs., pushing or pulling up to 25 lbs., perceiving colour differences. Job conditions may require twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, reaching or grasping, and working in confined spaces as permitted
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 1,500 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 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.