Sr Director, Operations - Permian Basin

Location:

Midland, TX, US, 79702

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 onewith 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 ofSr 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 superior performance. As such, this executive will lead and develop a positive work climate that is conducive to attracting, retaining, and motivating a group of top-quality employees at all levels.

• Fostering a corporate culture that promotes unwavering commitment to safety, technical and commercial excellence, teamwork, and people development, ethical practices and individual integrity, sustainability, calculated risk-taking and creativity.

• Participating as a key member of the executive management team in the development and implementation of the company’s ongoing growth strategy.

• The executive will play a critical role in the commissioning and integration of new systems and projects and foster detailed plan and processes to achieve successful commissioning

• Mange communications at all levels of organization, including executive leadership in both Delek Logistics an Delek US, on status of initiatives while proactively seeking input from key stakeholders on business projects

• Develop and implement policies, procedures, and processes for operational excellence that conforms to the requirements of Delek Logistics.

• Leverage extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals: A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

• Participate as a key member of the executive management team in the development and implementation of the company’s ongoing growth strategy.

• Ensure that all progress reports are developed as required, approves budget variance reports, including mitigation plan.

• Experienced in applying Change Management Principles to organizational initiatives

Required Education and Experience :

• The Sr Director, Operations will have significant 15+ years of experience in the oil & gas industry with a strong preference in midstream operations where operational excellence is a fabric of the entity.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or other related discipline; Master’s degree preferred

• Senior level experience in engineering, operations, and project management of pipelines.

• This executive will possess a strong track record of operational excellence and a track record for transforming business practices within high-growth project and operating environments.

• The executive will have previous experience leading meaningful sized budgets with full profit/loss accountability.

• This individual will have significant operating experience and be comfortable dealing with senior professionals across a myriad of disciplines ranging from engineering, operations, construction/project development, through to commercial, business development and administration.

• A strong understanding and experience of implementing leading environment, health, and safety initiatives – both personal safety and process safety.

• The Sr Director, Operations will have significant management and leadership experience in areas of recruiting, retaining, and developing a high performing team both of technical staff and management.

• The successful candidate must have unquestioned business ethics and personal integrity.

• Ability to lead and manage resources that do not have a direct reporting relationship, experience leading staff and contractors in office and remote locations

• Must be highly organized, analytical, action and detail oriented and possess an “ownership” personality with a sense of urgency

• Must be willing to travel 40-50% of the time

• Perform other duties as assigned

Desired Personal Qualities and Attributes:

The ideal candidate should possess:

• Credibility – Can command respect; problem-solver with the ability to analyze problems carefully and conceptualize solutions. Capable of translating business priorities into processes and initiatives that drive value and meet the business needs.

• Communication skills – Polished; good listener; excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to exercise strong cross-functional relationship, influence and persuasion skills to manage and deal effectively with change management initiatives.

• Collaborative – Demonstrates a willingness and ability to work with and through others; able to forge effective working relationships with various parties and encourage them to work together toward common goals. Experience working cross functionally with all areas of HR with demonstrated collaboration & teaming skills.

• Ownership – Self-starter with creative mind who takes initiative and ownership with a proven track record of putting ideas into practice and assessing results while maintaining strong business partnerships in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

• Values – A hard work ethic and high energy level; honest and straightforward; outstanding integrity

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We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.