SVP of Refinery Operations
industrial_energy_operations › Refinery · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Senior executive who owns refinery operations, safety, and production performance across one or more sites.
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What this role is
Senior executive who owns refinery operations, safety, and production performance across one or more sites. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Lead operations across multiple refinery sites or a refining division through site VPs/General Managers (E1s), integrating operating plans so decisions balance viability across the network rather than one plant
- Own the cross-functional integration of operations with maintenance/reliability, supply/optimization and HSE — resolving abstract trade-offs (run severity vs. reliability, throughput vs. emissions) with high consequence to the business
- Set the multi-site turnaround portfolio and major-hazard risk posture, standardizing operating discipline, alarm-management and abnormal-situation practices across plants
- Negotiate critical operating and investment matters — capacity commitments, feedstock slate changes, major incident consequences — with corporate leadership
- Accountable for the combined safety, reliability and margin performance of the operating footprint under his/her span
- Knowledge applied
- Applies cross-functional refining knowledge — operations, reliability, supply/optimization and HSE — across multiple sites, where operating decisions may affect the division's or company's viability.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Solves abstract, high-consequence trade-offs spanning the operating network (run severity vs. reliability, network throughput vs. emissions), not confined to one plant's process.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates critical operating, capacity and incident matters with top corporate leadership; leads multiple sites/divisions through E1-level site heads.
- Typical experience
- 15+ years with strategic leadership of refining sites or units and proven multi-site operating command.
Skills at this level
- Process-Safety Leadership
- — Sets and enforces safe-work practices, policies and processes as the operation's top priority across refinery units, ensuring emergency response and major-hazard controls protect workers and equipment at scale.
- Refinery Process Operations Command
- — Directs the safe, in-spec running of distillation, cracking, reforming, blending and treating units together with tank-farm and movements systems, holding units to process schedules for temperature, pressure and flow.
- Turnaround and Transient-State Governance
- — Owns the strategy and resourcing for start-ups, shutdowns and turnarounds so planned and abnormal transient states are executed safely rather than treated as occasional exposure.
- Abnormal Situation and Emergency Response Leadership
- — Establishes alarm-management and abnormal-situation-handling discipline and leads decisive response to cascading operating upsets, escalating and coordinating across units under time pressure.
- DCS/PLC-Controlled Operations Oversight
- — Governs how process units are run through DCS and PLC control systems, ensuring console and field operators safely and efficiently regulate process variables and integrate their work.
- Multi-Site Operations Integration
- — Integrates operating plans, standards and turnaround portfolios across multiple refinery sites, balancing throughput, reliability and emissions trade-offs across the network.
- Environmental and Regulatory Compliance Stewardship
- — Ensures refinery operations meet industry standards and environmental regulations, owning the operation's regulatory standing and managing exposure to compliance and permit risk.
- Refining Portfolio and Capital Strategy
- — Shapes configuration, capacity and cost/capital allocation across a refining asset base to sustain competitive, safe operating performance over the long term.
- Board and Regulator Engagement
- — Represents refining operations to the board, CEO, regulators, communities and industry safety bodies, communicating safety record, performance and strategic positioning.
- Operations Leadership Development
- — Builds the bench of operations managers, superintendents and senior operators — including unit authority, permit-issuer and trainer qualifications — that sustains safe operating discipline.
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