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- Your Career Growth
- Game Day Ready
- Cultivating Our Most Important Resource
- At Valero, we embrace the day’s challenges and find ways to grow professionally and achieve success for ourselves and our great company.
- Career growth is a choice. We believe in supporting the growth of exceptional talent as a dynamic, exciting and rewarding experience.
- Playbook 101: Setting You Up For Success
- We believe in providing the resources necessary for employees to grow as individual contributors and as leaders, increasing their value and impact over time. We strongly value career development to engage, motivate and challenge employees at every stage.
Embracing Valero’s Culture Values is a Key Driver for Your Growth
- Safety
- Safety is our foundation for success. From workplace safety to health and wellness, employees are encouraged to promote and demonstrate their commitment to safety at all times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-wy2NIzBxQ
- Accountability
- Employees make a personal choice to take ownership of performance. Creating an environment of accountability helps achieve important company goals and drives excellence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jj6eXOk6Rw&feature=youtu.be
- Teamwork
- Strong teams drive successful organizations. Valero believes that great teamwork and strong relationships are built through respectful collaboration, the sharing of diverse perspectives, and strong communication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy3qrDAgr7A
- Do the Right Thing
- Our commitment to integrity means doing the right thing for the right reason. Our people are trustworthy and set positive examples, leading to open, honest and sincere communication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkYf9FT76CE
- Caring
- Through caring, we create opportunities to positively impact the teams we support, the environment we share, the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbQUBUnQkE
- Excellence
- Valero employees treat every day like game day – working hard; being disciplined and holding ourselves to the highest standards to deliver best-in-class results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik0JSjdhJOw
- Talent Development and Training
- Our training mission is to provide employees with the resources, knowledge and perspectives necessary to succeed.
- Our robust professional and technical training program provides ongoing development through in-person classes and instructor-led online sessions.
- Frontline Leadership
- The Valero Culture
- Building Accountability
- The Skills to Take You Anywhere
- Maintaining a Harassment-Free Workplace
- Ethics Training
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) Bootcamp
- Professional Communication Skills
- Engineering Technical Excellence Program (ETEP)
- Our ETEP program has courses for early and mid-career engineers.
- Early Career Engineers
- Five core classes offered based on tenure:
- Basics of Petroleum Refining Processes or Advanced Petroleum Refining Processes
- Foundations of Leadership
- Safety in Refinery Design
- Professional Communication Skills
- Refinery Planning and Economics
- Five foundational courses specific to key processing unit technology – Coking, Crude/Distillation, Hydrocracking/processing, Fluid Catalytic Cracking, and Reforming -- are offered annually and assigned as early-career engineers rotate through processing units.
- Engineers With 5+ Years Experience
- A diverse schedule of technical topics and best practices is offered, based on a training plan built for an individual’s development and career goals.
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- Process Engineering
- Introductory and advanced courses for engineers in our refinery units; from an overview of processes to troubleshooting. Internal ETEP and external training resource courses include hydroprocessing, fluid catalytic cracking, reforming, coking, and fractionation.
- Electrical Engineering
- Introductory an