Supervisor Operations

Supervisor Operations-260015X

Description

- Supervises and directs the daily operations of an assigned area and leads the shift team of unit operators and assistants to ensure safe, efficient and reliable operations in order to meet refinery targets, production goals, and HS&E objectives.

- Ensures the safety of all personnel by enforcing safety expectations, performing routine safety observations, and assessments of the shift team and maintenance activities.

- Reviews and enforces refinery safety and environmental practices and procedures in assigned area with operating crews on specific jobs, shutdown and start-up procedures, routine and abnormal operation

- Supports incident response in the refinery

- Ensures proper relief and management of the shift utilizing policies, procedures, and processes developed for proper shift management.

- Ensuring the effectiveness of operator rounds. Updates to the Shift Superintendent on any performance issues.

- Drives on-shift safety, housekeeping, and VPP efforts. Ensures safety compliance by conducting daily permit audits,

- providing corrective feedback to the operators, and conducting weekly table top drills, safety meetings when appropriate, and regular safe work audits.

- Ensures that all EHSM notices are entered for their respective shift

- Ensures environmental compliance and reporting in assigned area.

- Ensures PSM compliance by supporting Job Hazard Analysis (JHAs), Pre-startup Safety Review (PSSRs), and

- Management of Change (MOCs) for all changes.

- Verifies and establishes accountability with operators with utilizing procedures when preparing equipment or executing changes to the process when required (startup, shutdown, emergency, etc.).

- Reviews and approves all applicable permits and energy isolation packages

- Reviews intelatrac exception reports from operator rounds and ensures that any discrepancies are appropriately addressed (i.e. notifications written, engineering notified, etc.).

- Reviews permit audit results and provides corrective feedback to operators.

- Verifies that equipment is prepped and ready for maintenance per the area night orders and the Maintenance Schedule. Communicates status to Operations Maintenance Gatekeepers (OMGs) and Maintenance Superintendents through the shift log.

- Identifies and troubleshoots unit limitations, and communicates issues to the Operations Superintendent, Shift

- Superintendent and Complex Managers.

- Acquires and maintains qualification for specified posts within the Complex.

- Provides field presence and leadership during troubleshooting or abnormal activities.

- Supports company/management positions or directives.

- Approves all operator time and ensures it is accounted for correctly and submitted on time in Kronos.

- Ensures training, qualification and knowledge retention of direct reports by coaching, mentoring and providing assistance to trainees and Operators.

- Ensures all operator staff is being properly trained (includes CBTs) and that all post training is being completed and

- documented.

- Provides and documents positive and negative coaching as required, and administers discipline if/when needed.

This position is hourly nonexempt status, which means you are eligible for overtime pay.

Qualifications

- High school diploma or GED, required.

- 5 years of refinery operations experience, required.

- Bachelor’s or higher-level degree, preferred.

- 8 years of overall experience in a refinery, preferred.

- Able and willing to work on-site, in-person at the Valero Memphis Refinery, 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 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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Job: Operations/Skilled Crafts & Trades/Maintenance

Primary Location:US-TN-Memphis

Job Posting Apr 27, 2026, 12:04:39 PM

Unposting Date Ongoing