Valero gave $1.5 million through the Texas A&M Foundation to support the construction of Valero High Bay Lab in the Zachry Engineering Education Complex (EEC). The new “lab will be truly interdisciplinary, allowing students from multiple engineering fields the opportunity to participate in experiential learning and transformational research,” said Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of Texas A&M Engineering. “Valero is proud of the longstanding partnership with the Texas A&M College of Engineering,” said Lane Riggs, Executive Vice President-Refining Operations and Engineering.
Valero Energy Overview
San Antonio, TX
10000+ employees
1980
Company - Public (VLO)
Oil, Gas, Energy & Utilities
$10+ billion (USD) per year
Valero Energy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, is an international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, petrochemical products and power. Valero subsidiaries employ approximately 10,000 people, and assets include 15 petroleum refineries with a combined ... Read more
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Valero has once again been included in Fortune magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies, billed as the “definitive report card on corporate reputations."
Valero Energy – Why Work For Us?
A Culture that Cares
Since the beginning, Valero has been a part of the life and spirit of the communities it serves. Whether it’s delivering meals to the elderly, mentoring at-risk youth, walking long distances on behalf of a cancer victim or clearing parks of unwanted brush, Valero is always there to lend a helping hand.
Valero volunteers throughout the company donate time, money and resources to help improve the lives of those in need.
Corporate giving ranges from the Valero Texas Open and Benefit for Children to donations from the Valero Energy Foundation. Learn more in the Community section.
Comprehensive Benefits
Valero offers one of the best benefit programs in the refining and marketing industry and among Fortune 100 companies, including:
- Numerous choices to meet individual and family needs
- Large and diverse selection of optional benefits
- Valuable income and financial security benefits for full- and part-time employees
- Educational assistance to support professional and personal development
Opportunities for Growth
Valero believes employee development is driven by both organizational and individual needs. Employees are given numerous resources to advance their careers, realize personal enrichment and achieve success.
- Training curriculum is provided for every level of employee throughout the company.
- An in-house team of training professionals provides services enhancing individual, team and department development.
- Employees are active participants in managing their careers.
Inclusive and Supportive Atmosphere
Valero continually works to maintain a work environment that is inclusive and supportive.
- Valero encourages leadership to maintain an open-door policy with employees at all times.
- Specialized team development coursesuse assessments, team-building activities and goal-setting exercises to build a positive work environment.
- Valero participates in diversity programs at local universities.
Environmental Stewardship: A Core Value
Valero has achieved significant emission reductions and made improvements in producing cleaner-burning gasoline, diesel and ethanol-blended fuels. For example:
- Valero spent approximately $525 million to build a state-of-the-art flue-gas scrubber, one of the world's largest, at its Benicia Refinery in California that is slashing sulfur dioxide emissions by 95 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by 55 percent.
- The company has installed flare-gas recovery systems at its refineries to capture and gather a variety of routine gases that otherwise would be flared.
- Since 2008, Valero has reduced flaring events more than 60 percent, criteria air emissions more than 45 percent and regulatory reportable spills to land or water by 60 percent.
Valero refineries reduced energy consumption to 0.42 million Btu per barrel of throughput in 2014, from 0.49 in 2008.
Focused on Alternative Energy, Technology
Valero understands the importance of pursuing alternative energy opportunities and using latest technologies to protect the environment.
- Valero acquired 11 state-of-the-art ethanol plants, making it the first traditional refiner to enter large-scale production of ethanol. Click here to learn more about Valero's ethanol plants.
- The company built a wind farm in the Texas Panhandle with 33 turbines and capacity to generate 50 megawatts of electricity, enough to power the McKee Refinery next door under optimum conditions and reducing reliance on conventional power sources.
- Diamond Alternative Energy LLC, a Valero subsidiary, produces "green" diesel fuel from recycled animal fat, used cooking oil and corn oil, in partnership with Darling Ingredients Inc., at a 10,000-barrel-per-day unit at the St. Charles refinery.
- Valero recovers oil from waste materials and reprocesses it through a method called coker recycle, transforming the oil into high-value fuel and avoiding transportation and disposal of the waste material. In 2014, Valero recycled 5,964 dry tons of this material.
- Valero recycled 12.7 million pounds of spent refining catalyst material in 2014 that otherwise would be disposed in landfills as hazardous waste.
- At Valero Pembroke Refinery in Wales, a $35 million upgrade of the sulfur recovery unit and conversion of the plant to natural gas reduced annual sulfur dioxide emissions by 3,000 metric tons. An alkylation process upgrade reduced annual spent caustic material generated by 2,700 metric tons.
- Plant wastewater from the Three Rivers refinery is treated and provided to the oil and gas industry for reuse as fracking water in the Texas Eagle Ford shale area, reducing use of fresh water.
- Valero is meeting the important challenge of greenhouse-gas reduction through careful scientific, economic and technical analysis, and adoption of new technologies. View the company’s greenhouse-gas policy statement.
Valero Energy Reviews
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Valero Energy full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Great variety in jobs, and competitive in pay. The site that I work at has been making great revenue since 2011, and the future is looking prosperous.
Cons
The refining industry is cyclic, and could at anytime see a downturn, but this company has great benefits and is always looking out for the employee. The environment is very relaxed/old school almost to the point that it is hard to get others on board with new ideas. This is changing with new employees and the older ones retiring.
Advice to Management
Make a list that shows the engineering opportunities, and the progression or ladder to get there. There has been too many positions that have just been hand picked and not necessarily any competitive was of bidding for this engineering position.
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Valero Energy Interviews
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I applied online. The process took 6+ weeks. I interviewed at Valero Energy (Houston, TX).
Interview
The Valero interview was a series of behavioral questions. There was three people on the interview panel. It was a Human Resources , Production supervisor,and manager. The questions are to answered in the STAR format.
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Valero Energy Awards & Accolades
- Fortune 500, Fortune, 2015
- America's Most Reputable Companies, Forbes.com, 2014
- Fortune 500, Fortune, 2014
- World’s Most Admired Companies, CNN Money, 2014
- Top 50 Most Community-Minded Companies, Bloomberg and Points of Light, 2013
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