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Description:

Valero is looking for a Lead Loss Control Specialist to join the team at the Memphis Refinery. The Lead Loss Control Specialist provides quality assurance and control of product losses for all movements of crude oil and petroleum products by performing the following duties:

• Provides Valero coverage on custody transfer movements at company owned and non-owned locations around the world as well as offshore locations.
• Identifies issues that expose Valero to additional costs, and based on this exposure, assumes the authority to take steps to mitigate the exposure. These steps may include anything from appointing additional oversight to suspending cargo operations.
• Minimizes in-transit losses that may result from errors or inconsistencies in measurement, sampling, or testing of incoming/outgoing refinery products
• Encourages uniform marine petroleum cargo measurement and inspection practices, ensuring that API guidelines and the Company's inspection procedures are followed with full documentation of events.
• Develops and implements systems which will alert management in a timely manner to potentially serious inventory and loss problems
• Makes decisions as to whether movements need to be held up if shore tanks, shorelines, barges or tankers are not suitable to load or discharge
• Prepares field paperwork that properly outlines activities related to movements that are attended
• Communicates with vessel officers and shore representatives to determine if additional gauging or testing is required
• Reduces ROB volumes by crude oil washing and stripping at discharge port.
• Issues letters of protest on custody transfer citing specific conditions
• Verifies and confirms all volumes with independent inspectors.
• Performs physical measurement and sampling of marine vessels, railcars, trucks, storage tanks and other containers may be required.
• Witnesses custody meter proving and meter prover calibrations. Initiate actions to ensure proper meter factors are determined and properly applied in the final calculation of volumes.
• Works with refinery groups on aspects of maintenance, scheduling, and design of equipment which affects custody transfer and custody measurement.

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

Qualifications:
* High school diploma or GED required. * Bachelor’s degree preferred. * 8 years of experience in custody transfer measurements, loss control and/or marine/terminal inspection related experience required. * Able and willing to lift 50 pounds of occasionally and 20 pounds of force frequently required. * Able and willing to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays, as needed required. * Able and willing to travel up to 25% of the time, as needed, required. * 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/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.

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: Inspection %26 Reliability
Primary Location: US-TN-Memphis
Job Posting: May 9, 2024, 5:52:10 PM
Unposting Date: Ongoing
Req ID: 240018H