Vice President of Refining

Oversee and direct the day-to-day business activities of the Petro Star Valdez Refinery and the North Pole Refinery to include:

1. Operation of the refineries, ensuring safety and optimum production, and maintenance/upkeep of the refinery equipment and properties.
2. Develop and manage refinery operating and capital budgets, personnel, equipment, lands and buildings. 
3. Identify projects that cost-effectively improve worker safety, refinery operability/reliability, enhance efficiency/lower costs, and increase production.

1. Supervise and provide leadership and guidance to all refinery personnel.
2. Serve as the principal emergency contact for all issues and incidents arising at the refineries.
3. Interface with local, State and Federal agencies, as well as Corporate Risk, Legal and HR departments..
4. Responsible for ensuring refinery compliance with operational, environmental and safety regulations.
5. Lead all refinery personnel and proactively manage all performance issues, coordinating with appropriate refinery and corporate human resources staff.
6. Manage the submission and monitoring of refinery operating and capital budgets.
7. Work closely with the Safety, Mechanical Integrity, Government Compliance personnel, both at the refineries and the corporate office, to ensure safe and fully compliant refinery operations.
8. Coordinate with the Engineering & Construction Group to develop conceptual design and reasonable estimates for plant turnarounds, capital projects, and new construction.
9. Direct contracting of necessary manpower for turnarounds, capital projects, and new construction.
10. Direct plant personnel in specialized tasks according to their individual abilities.

Carry out managerial responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Provide supervision and oversight of all employees within the department. Responsibilities include: interviewing, hiring, disciplining, coaching and training, addressing and resolving employee concerns and issues, along with planning, assigning, directing work, and assessing job performance. 

ASRC’s Core competencies include Leading Self, Leading People and Leading the Organization. In addition to our core competency model, our framework includes competencies specific to the various levels of positions within our company. For more information on our core competencies please contact the HR Department and reference the ASRC Leadership Framework.

Business Acumen

• Knows how businesses work; knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting their business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.

Strategic Agility

• Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and vision of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.

Interpersonal Savvy

• Relates well to all kinds of people – up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can defuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Negotiating

• Can negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups; can settle differences with minimum noise; can win concessions without damaging relationships; can be direct and forceful as well as diplomatic; gains trust quickly of other parties to the negotiations; has a good sense of timing.

Organizational Agility

• Knowledgeable about how organizations work; knows how to get things done both through formal channels and the informal network; understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices and procedures; understands the cultures of organizations.

1. Bachelor’s degree in an industrial craft trade or another related field; petroleum or chemical engineering degree preferred.
2. Minimum of ten (10) years’ supervisory experience in an industrial, continuous process environment.
3. Minimum of five (5) years as a supervisor in the Petroleum Industry. 
4. Project management experience is desirable, as well as a degree in sciences, chemistry or engineering, or ten years’ experience in the petroleum industry. 
5. Must possess or obtain a valid driver’s license.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees or customers. 

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to sit; reach with hands and arms; and to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.   Specific vision abilities required by this job includes the ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment is in a busy office setting.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions and may be required to travel in small and large commercial aircraft.

NOTE:  This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The statements contained herein are intended to describe the principal functions of this position, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibilities, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.

Petro Star Inc., a division of ASRC, is a drug free workplace and pre-employment drug testing is part of the hiring process.

ASRC and its family of companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, age or any other legal protected status.  EOE:  M|F|D|V

Petro Star Inc. is the refining division of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, an Inupiat-owned corporation created as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

ASRC's family of companies apply a shareholder preference in employment, to the maximum extent feasible, as authorized by law.