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See Yourself at Valero

Valero is a safety and business leader in search of exceptional employees at our Pembroke Refinery in south Wales, terminal locations throughout the UK and Ireland and corporate offices in London.

Annually, the refinery’s community engagement program has supported local and national charities, with over £1 million in donations over the past five years. Our apprenticeship and engineering bursary program also support emerging talent in our student population.

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Compensation

Base Pay

Exceptional Valero employees can expect a compensation package that is not only competitive, but also reflects their high performance and unique contributions to the company. Valero’s base salary is based on competitive market analysis and individual experience and capabilities. 

Valero Pension Plan

Valero provides a generous Defined Contribution Pension Plan that is designed to ensure financial security in retirement. Employees are automatically enrolled from day one. 

Discretionary Annual Bonus Awards

The Annual Bonus Award is a way to reward team members who contribute to Valero’s success, and is based on employee performance over the past year.

Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Our award-winning Share Incentive Plan (SIP) gives employees the opportunity to acquire shares of common stock in Valero Energy Corporation in a tax efficient manner by awarding two Matching Shares for every Partnership Share that the Trustees buy for you through the SIP’s dealing facility, on contributions up to £125 per month.

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Private Medical Insurance

Valero’s Private Medical Insurance provider offers a range of medical services that are designed to support employees and their families with their health and well-being needs. Enrollment is Company funded by Valero, subject to a benefit in kind tax, and has discounted rates for further family cover at employees' expense.

Vacation

Valero provides a minimum of 22 days leave per calendar year, plus statutory holidays (pro-rated for new hires who join the company during the holiday year). After the first year of employment, vacation increases in line with years of service.

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Other Benefits

To recognize and assist Team Valero in achieving important personal and financial goals, the company offers the following:

  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection Cover
  • Educational Fees Reimbursement
  • Professional Membership Reimbursement
  • Valero Scholarship Program (for children of Valero employees)
  • Retirement and Service Awards
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Employee Appreciation Events

Other Benefits

To recognize and assist Team Valero in achieving important personal and financial goals, the company offers the following:

  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection Cover
  • Educational Fees Reimbursement
  • Professional Membership Reimbursement
  • Valero Scholarship Program (for children of Valero employees)
  • Retirement and Service Awards
  • Employee Referral Program

In addition to offering a competitive financial benefits package, Valero’s commitment to employee health and well-being is evident through its well-being initiatives: 

Comprehensive Health and Wellness Package
Valero provides comprehensive health and wellness coverage, including Private Health Care, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Income Protection Cover and Life Assurance. We also have many Wellness initiatives taking place on-site.  

Wellness Assessments
Our confidential wellness assessments help proactively identify health issues and are free to employees. On-site vaccination programs also help to protect health.

Fitness Subsidy
Employees can claim a repayment of 50% of the cost, up to £320 per year, toward membership of a local gym to make the most of workout equipment, fitness programs and leisure facilities.

Career Opportunities

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    Engineering, Health, Safety and Environmental

    From strategy and project development to analyzing our world-class refining operations, engineering at Valero goes far beyond the office environment. An exciting future awaits as you support innovative projects that make a difference in Valero's world-class refineries and ethanol plants. Be a key collaborator, working together to advance the future of energy.

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    “Working as part of a diverse team to solve problems and make improvements in our industry motivates me in my work as an Engineer. I encounter challenges on a daily basis and this gives endless opportunities for learning and developing new skills.”

    Hannah O., HES Engineer

  • Operations

    Operations teams sit at the heart of everything we do. Team Valero's success is rooted in our expertise on the front line as we run equipment and processes safely and reliably to deliver products that fuel modern life.

    An employee at Pembroke refinery

    “I enjoy working within a complex and dynamic industry. The intricacies of the refinery process make Operations interesting to me. Working as part of a team in a collaborative environment has allowed me to meet people who help me continuously learn and develop new skills.”

    Jess J., Plant Operator

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    Maintenance

    Our Maintenance team is integral to ensuring the process equipment is maintained to a high standard. Preventative and Predictive maintenance techniques combined with effective troubleshooting, diagnosis and repair ensures that equipment runs as designed in a safe, reliable and efficient manner.

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    "Working for Valero means you get to meet people who all have different roles and responsibilities but we are all able to come together to achieve the same goals."

    Dan H., Sr Instrument Technician

  • Business Services

    Behind every Valero refinery, ethanol plant, pipeline and terminal is an exceptional team of professionals working to fuel their success from the conference room into the plant. From Legal, Accounting and Finance, and Commercial Marketing and Supply, to Human Resources and Development, turn your passion and expertise into world-class support for our teams.

    An employee at Pembroke refinery

    "Valero has provided me with opportunity to grow both personally and professionally. With a supportive work environment, I have built a network of close colleagues and friends, which over the years have made my time here that bit more rewarding."

    Johnathan A., Sr Technical Trainer

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Who We Are

Team Valero volunteers time in the Pembrokeshire community and helps with tasks including tree planting, beach clean-ups, painting and redecorating schools and community centers. Annually, the refinery’s community engagement program supports local and national charities with over £1 million in donations over the past five years.

For more information about Valero, take a look at our ESG Report.

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Our Commitments

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    This website is operated by Valero Energy Ltd (a company incorporated in England & Wales (company number 8566216), whose registered office is at 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AA), an affiliate of Valero Energy Corporation (a U.S. company). Company and its affiliates (collectively “Company,” “we” or “our”) are committed to protecting your privacy and take the security of your information very seriously. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes the categories of personal data we collect on our websites, the purposes for which we use those data, your choices regarding the use of your data, our security measures, and how you can review and correct your data. We have strict security measures to protect your personal data.  This includes robust security procedures. Valero are a data controller and process limited personal data in accordance with this policy.

    If you have any concerns or would like to contact us about any aspect of this policy, please get in touch through the contact details at the bottom of this statement.

     

    Your consent:

    By registering, you consent to the processing of personal data, including special category data, that we collect from you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

     

    Personal data collected

    In connection with an application or inquiry submitted to us online we may collect the following types of personal data, which include special category data, from you:

    • Name

    • Gender

    • Address

    • E-mail address

    • Phone and fax number

    • Education and skills

    • Resume or curriculum vitae

    • Employment history

    • Financial information

    • Race or ethnic origin (where required or permitted by law)

    • Health and medical data

    • Criminal background check, where necessary and legally permitted.

     

    Use of your personal data:

    In connection with an application or inquiry submitted to us online we will use your information to (a) process your interest in a placement and administer our work experience, bursary and year in industry programmes. We may also use or share this information throughout Company, including within our subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide, for the purpose of the apprenticeship scheme consideration. We will only disclose such information to third parties who assist us in making employment decisions or verifying your application information, or to other third parties where you have given your consent. For example, we may disclose this information to recruitment consultants, or to employment screening companies that help us verify the information you have provided to us. These parties are subject to confidentiality obligations.

    We must have a legal basis to process your personal information. In most cases the legal basis will be one of the following:

    1. Your consent which you may withdraw at any time. Please note a withdrawal of consent may result in the end of your apprenticeship application with us.

    2. To comply with our legal obligations for example, obligations relating to taxation, financial reporting and court orders.

    3. To meet our legitimate interests, for example to understand how you use our services and to enable us to derive knowledge from that to enable us to develop new services. When we process your information to meet our legitimate interests, we put in place robust safeguards to ensure that your privacy is protected and to ensure that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. For more information about the balancing test that we carry out to process your personal information to meet our legitimate interests, please contact us at the details below.

     

    Disclosure of your Personal Data:

    Except as described below, personal data that you provide to Company via our websites will not be shared outside of Company, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its joint ventures, without your consent.

    Recruitment partners. We may disclose personal and special category data to our partners during the recruitment process, e.g. for employment, medical, financial and/or criminal checks.

    Pre employment vetting companies. We may disclose personal and special category data to these companies (under the agreements we have with them) for the purposes of pre-employment vetting and screening.

    Disclosure to service providers. Company contracts with other companies to provide services on our behalf, such as hosting websites, sending out information, processing transactions, and analysing our websites. We provide these companies with only those elements of your personal data they need to provide those services. These companies and their employees are prohibited from using those personal data for any other purposes.

    Legal Process. We may disclose personal data where we believe such disclosure if necessary to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena or other legal process.

    To Protect Us and Others. We also may disclose personal data where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety, rights or property of any person or party, or violations of our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy.

     

    Data Integrity, Security and Retention:

    Company is committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. We also use reasonable efforts to maintain the accuracy and integrity of Personal Data and to update it as appropriate. You can help us to keep your data accurate by notifying us of any change to your mailing address, phone number, or e-mail address.

    We will keep your application information for future consideration for up to 6 months unless you direct us not to do so. Where you are successful and become our employee, your recruitment file will form part of your employment record with us.

     

    Access to your Personal Data:

    You have the right to know what personal data we hold about you and to be provided with a copy and to have any inaccurate information corrected.  You may also have rights to restrict some of the processing we have described above or withdraw any consent you may have given us.  You may also exercise the right to data portability and erasure of personal data.

    If you have any questions about this or would like to exercise your rights, please contact us at the through the details below.

     

    International Transfers of Personal Data:

    Company is headquartered in the United States and has affiliates and subsidiaries worldwide, including in Europe, Canada, the U.S. and Aruba.

    Personal data we process may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Valero Energy Ltd or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or joint ventures maintain facilities (some of which do not have the same laws in place to protect data). In these cases, we will take steps to protect your data, which include technical, physical and organisational security controls where international transfers are involved.

     

    Children:

    We do not knowingly collect personal data from any children under the age of 16. If one of our websites is directed at children, we will include an additional privacy statement notice for children on that website.

     

    Questions or Complaints:

    If you have questions regarding this Policy or our handling of your personal data or if you wish to complain, please contact us at: privacylead@valero.com.

    You are also able to complain to the Supervisory Authority whose details can be found here www.ico.org.uk

     

    Changes to this Privacy Policy:

    Company may occasionally update this Policy. When we do, we will revise the “updated” date at the top of this Policy. We will obtain consent for any updates that materially expand the sharing or use of your personal data, in ways not disclosed to you at the time of collection.