Director HSE Excellence and Assurance

Manages the corporation’s health, safety, and environmental excellence assessments, audits, and assurance program. Uses assessments, audits, key metrics, and reporting tools to communicate performance throughout the organization. Drives health, safety, process safety, environmental, and fuels compliance continuous improvement towards excellence.

• Oversees health, safety, process safety, environmental, and fuels compliance assessment professionals.
• Selects and manages consultants engaged in audits and assessments.
• Reports HSE Excellence Assessment and Audit results and corrective action status to senior management.
• Establishes HSE Excellence Assessment and Audit schedules.
• Maintains assessment and audit tools, policies, procedures, protocols and reference materials.
• Coordinates training for company-employed HSE Excellence Assessors and Auditors.
• Coordinates, directs and participates in HSE Excellence compliance and management system audits.
• Supervises ad-hoc assessment and audit teams comprising of Valero subject matter experts and/or 3rd-party auditors.
• Leads opening and closing conferences with refinery and facility leadership teams.
• Coaches, mentors, and trains assessors, site champions, and refinery personnel .
• Reviews observations and findings against relevant expectations, and revise as needed for quality, accuracy, and consistency with expectations.
• Evaluates corrective action plans for suitability, relevance against expectations and driving performance improvement. Negotiates changes with site Leadership.
• Reports assessment and audit results and corrective actions clearly and accurately.
• Tracks corrective actions and Gap Closure Plan progress to completion.
• This position is salaried exempt status, which means you are not eligible for overtime pay.
  
  

Job

Health, Safety, & Environmental: Professionals & Engineers

Primary Location:

US-TX-San Antonio

Job Posting

Mar 6, 2025, 12:56:52 PM

Unposting Date

Ongoing

• Engineering degree required.
• 15 years of experience in the refining or petrochemical sector required.
• Able and willing to work on-site, in-person at the Valero San Antonio location, required.
  
  

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 are the heart of its success, and there is a reason why the company is an employer of choice in the fuels manufacturing and marketing industry. It’s not just the excellent benefits package, or the opportunities for personal growth, it’s also the caring and committed culture of the organization that makes everyone feel like they’re truly part of a team. For more information, visit Valero.com.

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

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