Safety Engineer

Safety Engineer-26001A7

Description

Valero is the best-in-class producer of essential fuels and products that are foundational to modern life. We invite you to join our ~10,000 employees to drive exceptional results for our company, the energy industry and our community.

A Safety Engineer has an Understanding State and Federal safety regulations, assesses and communicates the implications of those regulations to Operations, and works with Operations to develop and implement cost-effective compliance solutions. Works with Regional and other Safety Engineers to develop and implement Best Practices solutions to common safety regulations and issues.

At Valero, we are committed to advancing the future of energy through innovation, ingenuity and unmatched execution, including:

• Interact and work with the site workforce. Develop and maintain good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills that help the workforce and other functional groups implement those process changes or procedures necessary to comply with the regulations and requirements. Remain responsive to routine requests for Information from Operations and other functional groups. Facilitate the writing or writes site safety procedures and assist the workforce and other functional groups translate requirements into written procedures.
• Develop and recommend business driven and cost-effective strategies: Demonstrate an untiring effort to find new and better ways to comply with new and existing regulations.
• Develop and deliver training to the site for safety issues: Develop training materials pertaining to safety issues as required by the site due to new or changing Federal or State regulations. Provide the training materials to the parties responsible for delivering site training or may deliver the training directly to the site employees.
• Maintain records to demonstrate compliance. Review plant modifications for safety systems and supporting documentation to illustrate compliance to the regulations and VPP requirements with confidence and ease. Interact with agency inspectors in a manner that minimizes negative impacts.
• Interact with Agency Representatives. Develop the confidence, capability, and willingness to maintain the site's position with an agency representative, as appropriate, on the interpretation and applicability of a regulation or requirement.
• Participate in Trade Association meetings (e.g. Tcc, VPPPA, ASSE) for assigned field.
• Work with supervisor on professional and personal development and career planning.
• Work with the region and other site safety organizations on consolidated contracts which add value to the organization.
• Support opportunity projects (eg. ERT training requirements, etc) in the most cost effective manner.
• Work with Operations and the regional organization to maintain compliance so that unwarranted agency inspections do not occur. Develop a business oriented behavior for implementing regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain a working knowledge of the site and processes.
• Work with Operations and the regional organization to implement processes to meet regulatory requirements and ensure operating flexibility.
• Evaluate process changes for safety impact or compliance (Management of Change).
• Evaluate new chemicals for safety impact or compliance.
• Hold signature authority to issue releases against standing purchasing orders at the discretion of the Site HSE Manager or above.
• Participates in department “on-call” responsibilities for all Health and Safety matters.
• Conducts OSHA compliance audits and safety field audits for assigned area (safe work permit, lockout/tag out, fall protection, etc.).
• Conducts contractor orientation.

This position is salaried exempt status, which means you are not eligible for overtime pay.

Qualifications

Job:

Engineering

Primary Location:

US-TX-Houston

Job Posting

Jul 28, 2026, 3:30:48 PM

Unposting Date

Ongoing