Sr Director, Operations - Permian Basin

Are you looking for a career in a dynamic and innovative company that values versatility, growth, and teamwork? Look no further than Delek US Holdings!

 

What is Delek? What do we do?

We are a boutique-sized diversified downstream energy company with a range of assets, including petroleum refining, logistics, renewable fuels, and convenience store retailing.

• Our refineries in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana have a combined crude capacity of 302,000 barrels per day
• Our logistics business currently owns and operates 720 miles of crude and product pipelines, a 600-mile crude oil gathering system, and storage tanks and terminals.
• Our Retail or convenience store part of Delek, runs over 250 stores in Texas and New Mexico. We also have company-branded New-to-Industry DK stores in the southern part of the US!
• Our three renewables’ plants in Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi combined can produce 40 million gallons of biodiesel fuel a year.

 

Delek Benefits

We offer fantastic benefits that include up to a 10% match on 401K on your hire start, with a vesting timeline of only one year, along with medical benefits that start on day one with a 30% premium rebate annually! We value your well-being and all employees now have access to the Calm app for FREE, which is used for meditation, stress management, and better sleep. Through our performance management program, you can earn additional annual incentives as you set and achieve goals. Our pay for performance culture motivates our employees to improve Delek’s year-over-year company, business unit, and individual results. With some of the highest bonus payouts in recent years, we know that our success is due to our talented and dedicated team. We are looking for individuals like you to help us continue this momentum and bring new ideas to the table. At Delek, you will have the opportunity to make an impact and grow your career in a supportive and innovative environment.

 

Job Summary:

We are hiring for the position of Sr Director, Operations - Permian Basin located in Midland, TX or Hobbs, NM.

The Sr Director, Operations - Permian Basin will oversee all pipeline gathering, natural gas processing, saltwater operations disposal, and autonomous technical functions. This individual will be charged with leading and motivating the operations staff, ensuring continuity of standards and processes, understanding of risk, and the ability to effectively operate with the highest standards of efficiency, safety, and productivity.

We are looking for a Sr Director with leadership skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to anticipate and challenge situations, critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, and the ability to develop economic and marginal analysis for sound decisions.  The successful candidate must be able to multi-task, prioritize, and make decisions quickly and effectively.  This individual will be comfortable working in an environment of uncertainty and change, constantly seeking to drive value for the organization based on the changing landscape. With an eye towards safety, cost control, and value creation, the Sr Director, Operations - Permian Basin will be responsible for the day-to-day management and oversight of the company’s operating pipeline and terminals assets, with direct accountability for the disciplines related to effectively managing operational excellence in the Company. The Sr Director, Operations will be based in Midland, TX or Hobbs, NM with leadership responsibility for 5-7 direct reports with 50 or more geographically dispersed indirect reports.

 

Major Duties & Responsibilities: The Sr Director, Operations with collaboration with peers and colleagues will implement and influence a process and systems environment to achieve operational excellence in our pipeline and terminal organizations.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Designing and executing upon scalable and common operational procedures and methodologies for the company with a focus towards safety, operational excellence, cost control, asset utilization, and value creation.
• Collaborate and work closely with Integrity Management and Engineering to maximize the profitability of assets and systems.
• Direct responsibility over control room personnel to ensure competency towards effective response for normal and abnormal operating conditions
• Interfacing regularly across the organization to ensure that operations comply with regulatory and industry standards.
• Designing and maintaining key metrics, systems, processes, and Key Performance Indicators to be used to measure and maintain a high operating standard across the organization.
• Developing and recruiting key team members, and through them, motivating his or her team to super