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The Basics:
Location: Delaware City, DE
Days/Hours: Rotating schedule including days, nights, weekends, holidays, and occasional off-shift meetings and training.
Material Handled: Petroleum products, petroleum coke, rail shipments, and transloaded materials.
These are just a few of the benefits you can expect from working with Savage:
- Excellent benefits including medical, dental, and vision
- Paid Parental Leave and Military/Uniformed Services Leave
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Holidays
- Profit Sharing and 401(k) with company match
- Company provided Uniforms & PPE (laundering included)
- Annual $150 steel-toe boot allowance
- A culture that appreciates Team Members
Shift Supervisors lead the operating efforts of the rail, coke and transloading work performed for the PBF refinery by organizing and ensuring work is completed in a safe and efficient manner
What you’ll be doing:
- Operations Leadership: Lead daily rail, coke, and transloading operations within a refinery environment while ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with customer expectations.
- Safety Leadership: Lead by example in the field, conduct daily safety briefings, reinforce safe work practices, recognize positive safety behaviors, and immediately address unsafe conditions or actions.
- Crew Management: Organize work assignments, ensure crews are prepared for their shifts, and allocate resources to meet operational and customer requirements.
Team Member Development: Coach, mentor, and support team members through training, cross-training opportunities, performance discussions, and professional development activities.
- Field Leadership: Maintain a strong presence in the field by working alongside team members while balancing operational and administrative responsibilities.
- Customer Support: Partner with refinery personnel and customers to understand shift priorities and ensure operational needs are successfully executed.
- Incident Response: Serve as Incident Commander during emergencies when the Operations Manager is unavailable.
Safety & Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to refinery, railroad, customer, company, and regulatory safety standards and procedures.
- S7 Delivery System: Learn, implement, teach, and reinforce Savage's S7 Delivery System to drive consistency, accountability, and operational excellence.
Daily Refinery & Rail Operations
- Shift Planning & Coordination: Plan and organize daily operational activities to ensure safe and productive execution of rail, coke, and transloading services.
- Customer Coordination: Communicate regularly with the Refinery Shift Superintendent to align operations with refinery priorities and customer requirements.
- Shift Handoffs: Partner with opposite-shift supervisors to ensure seamless communication and continuity between shifts.
- Operational Reporting: Prepare accurate daily shift summaries and communicate operational issues, concerns, and performance updates to Operations Management.
- Equipment Reliability: Monitor operational equipment performance and promptly report maintenance concerns to support safe and reliable operations.
- Operational Excellence: Understand the unique needs of rail, loading, and coke-handling operations and ensure customer expectations are consistently met.
Requirements to be successful:
- Leadership Experience: Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to motivate, coach, develop, and hold team members accountable.
- Industrial Operations Knowledge: Subject matter expertise in one or more operational areas within rail, refinery, transloading, terminal, or industrial environments.
- Safety Commitment: Passion for safety and the ability to influence safe work behaviors while promoting a strong safety culture.
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Effectively communicate with employees, customers, refinery personnel, and leadership while building strong working relationships.
- Planning & Organization: Ability to prioritize competing responsibilities and adapt to changing operational demands.
- Computer Skills: Basic computer skills and the ability to utilize operational systems and reporting tools.
- Independent Judgment: Ability to work independently and make sound decisions with minimal supervision.
- Site Access Requirements: Ability to obtain and maintain a TWIC card and successfully complete all required background screenings, physicals, and site access requirements.
- Training & Certifications: Ability to complete and maintain required OSHA, HazMat, FMCSA, FRA, and refinery-specific training programs.
- Schedule Flexibility: Ability to work rotating schedules covering days, nights, weekends, holidays, and emergency situations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Industrial Experience: Three to five years of experience working in refinery, rail, terminal, transloading, manufacturing, or other industrial operations.
- Supervisory Experience: Minimum one year of direct supervisory or team leadership experience.
- Safety Leadership: Current Safety Specialist certification or ability to complete Safety Specialist certification within one year.
- Collective Bargaining Experience: General knowledge of the USW Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
- Driver's License: Current and valid driver's license.
Some physical requirements and working conditions:
- Outdoor Work Environment: Work outdoors in all weather conditions, including heat, cold, rain, snow, and wind.
- Working at Heights: Safely work at heights and in elevated refinery and rail operating areas.
- Respirator Requirements: Ability to pass a respirator fit test and work under supplied air when required.
- DOT Qualification: Ability to pass and maintain a DOT physical.
- Industrial Mobility: Crawl under railcars, work in tight spaces, and navigate active refinery and rail operations.
- Walking & Standing: Walk more than five miles per shift on uneven terrain and stand for extended periods.
- Physical Demands: Lift and carry materials weighing up to 50 pounds.
- Office & Field Environment: Split time between office responsibilities and field leadership activities.
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Additional Information:
- A complete job description is available upon request
- Savage is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains a drug-free workplace
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- You may view available jobs at www.savageco.com/careers and apply using the online job posting.
- Team members may be eligible for a benefits package that is dependent on hours worked and position classification. This package may include medical, dental, and vision coverage; life, AD&D, and disability insurance; supplemental coverage options; health savings and flexible spending accounts; paid time off; profit sharing; and a 401(k) plan with company match. Benefits are subject to change. For more information visit https://savageco.com/careers/benefits-information/
