Supervisor Design Engineering

Valero is the best-in-class producer of essential fuels and products that are foundational to modern life. We invite you to join our ~10,000 employees to drive exceptional results for our company, the energy industry and our community.

As a  Supervisor Design Engineering you will coordinate and conduct activities associated with providing design and drafting services to the Wilmington Refinery and Asphalt Plant. Incumbent will perform design and drafting services as well as develop work scopes, cost estimates and coordinate execution of projects assigned to provide cost effective design and drafting services for refinery projects.

At Valero, we are committed to advancing the future of energy through innovation, ingenuity and unmatched execution. You can help achieve this goal if you can:

• Plans, schedules, and prioritizes design work and ensure that it is performed accurately, cost effectively, and in accordance with company standards. Supervises and coordinates the daily activities of the contract engineers, designers, and drafters.
• Orchestrates engineering resource plan and manages design drafting backlog.
• Interacts closely with Project engineers to ensure alignment with project engineering schedule milestones.
• Leads development of cost estimates for engineering and design drafting man hours. 
• Ensures accuracy of man hour estimates and forecasts.
• Plans and manages design expenses to stay within budget.
• Ensures Contract Engineering /Design Drafting Requests are completed and approved prior to initiating work and maintains tracking log.
• Ensures design compliance with company’s PSM program, (Shell Standards, and local standards), provides MOCA documentation and monitors quality of drafting for the documentation process through the MOCA QAQC program.
• Establishes bench mark data for selected engineering design deliverables.
• Performs design work on critical projects requiring additional expertise as needed.
• Performs squad checks on in-house design and drafting projects to ensure quality and accuracy of design and to minimize errors and changes in the field due to such errors.
• Oversees the assignment and maintenance of refinery equipment numbers. 
• Provides design guidance to outside technical Consultants.
• Develops and maintains company design procedures, standards and specifications.
• Provides technical support to all drafting and design personnel; troubleshoots and maintains design department computer workstations and drafting design software.
• Evaluates and keeps current software and hardware technologies that promote increased productivity from designers and draftsmen.
• Oversees the maintenance of refinery drawing files, scanning and archiving systems and associated databases.

This position is salaried exempt status, which means you are not eligible for overtime pay.

The salary range for this position is $100,500 to $138,100 and represents Valero’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of expected compensation at the time of this posting.  Actual compensation will be determined based on a number of job-related factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications and experience.

Minimum Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED required.
• 8 years of piping design and drafting experience, including mechanical design and drafting experience or equal experience in Control systems required.
• Proficient as an AutoCAD user required. 
• Able and willing to work on-site, in-person at the Valero Wilmington Refinery, required.

Preferred Requirements: 

• Associate’s Degree in Drafting Technology preferred.
• 3 years of AutoCAD Plant 3D or equivalent software experience preferred.
• 1 year of SAP experience preferred
• 1 year experience with 3D laser scanner technology preferred
• Understanding of basic Process Controls preferred
• Certificate Piping Design preferred
• Certificate Control Systems Design preferred

Need more reasons to work for a company that is both professionally challenging and culturally rewarding?  Take a look at some of our best-in-class benefits:

• Competitive Pay and Annual Bonus Program
• 100% match on 401(K) up to 7%, with immediate vesting
• Company-sponsored Pension Plan
• Comprehensive Healthcare and Wellness Program

Benefits described above are highlights only, subject to an employee’s eligibility and work location.

Discover more about Wilmington and how we’re making a difference there.

All successful candidates must be eligible to obtain a TWIC card (Transportation Worker Identification Credential). It is Valero’s policy that employees must wear this card at all times while working at the refinery. Please review eligibility criteria at https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic.

Position level and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Valero's employees and team-focused culture drive our success. We’re invested in our dedicated workforce through a comprehensive, customizable benefits package, while supporting a caring culture that delivers a rewarding work environment built on teamwork, excellence and career growth. To explore the ways we build a stronger team, visit Valero.com/Careers.

About the Wilmington Refinery
The Valero Wilmington Refinery was commissioned in 1969 and has had three major expansions to become a fully integrated refinery and several upgrades to meet clean-fuel standards. The Wilmington refinery processes a blend of California and foreign crude oil, as well as unfinished feedstocks from local and foreign sources. Given its coking and desulfurizing capabilities, it is particularly well-suited to process lower-cost heavy, high-sulfur crude oils and feedstocks. The refinery also produces 15 percent of the asphalt supply in southern California. Refined products are distributed from the Wilmington refinery through a network of third-party pipelines and terminals in southern California, Nevada and Arizona, and then on to wholesale and retail customers.

Valero will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

Valero is an EEO Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected status, including race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Please be advised, if you are viewing this position on a website that lists an estimated salary rate/range, it was not provided by Valero.  Valero’s market specific salary rate/range will be provided during the recruiting process and tends to be higher than what is estimated by such websites.  

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