Refinery Gasoline Blender

At Parkland, our purpose is to Power Journeys & Energize Communities. We are a prominent independent supplier and marketer of fuel and petroleum products and a leading convenience store operator. As One Parkland team, we proudly serve diverse retail, commercial and wholesale customers across Canada, the United States, the Caribbean region, and South America. We power a growing family of locally known brands including Fas Gas Plus, Pioneer, RaceTrac, Superpumper, Ultramar, Chevron, Esso, and ON the RUN

We recognize that diversity gives us an edge and inclusion propels us forward. We’re also a passionate team of down-to-earth achievers, committed to getting our customers, colleagues and communities further, faster. As such, we welcome talented individuals that have a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and industry experience who will contribute to the success of our One Parkland team.

**Position Title**:Refinery Gasoline Blender

**Team and Location**:Parkland Refinery - Burnaby, BC

**Salary**: $105,000 - $120,000 / annum

**Position Summary**:
Responsible for developing and executing production campaigns that ensure the consistent supply of gasoline barrels from the Burnaby Refinery to all customers (Retail, Commercial, Aviation, Third Party). These volumes account for over 50% of all product sold from the refinery, which is roughly 11 million barrels per annum or $1,400 MM in annual sales.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Leads the development and execution of gasoline blending/scheduling plans for refinery blending and shipping operations ensuring that all products meet required specifications at lowest cost possible - total annual volumes amount to nearly 11 million barrels of production or >$1B in sales.
- Provide direction and leadership to operating crews, laboratory technicians and technical teams daily.
- Leads aspects of cross-functional blending team efforts in support of the Gasoline Giveaway Reduction Sustainability Plan, focused on achieving $3-5MM in annual savings through gasoline giveaway reduction.
- Develops and optimizes turnaround import plans for gasoline during refinery outages thereby allowing PRBC supply to keep all sales channels supplied with fuel and achieve import uplift economics. Works in tandem with Senior HVP planner to complete.
- Support profit and quality improvement projects, team and audits. Examples include the Tier 3 Tracking & Optimization Team, providing blend cases for potential scenarios.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Detailed knowledge of all blending and scheduling capability at the Burnaby refinery developed over >5 years.
- Organizational and prioritization skills - a demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage decisions with short deadlines and mínimal supervision is needed.
- Ability to work on own initiative to develop and implement innovative solutions to business and logistics-based challenges.
- Experience leading cross functional teams (Operations, Laboratory, Supply, Technical) to deliver margin improvement and cost savings opportunities.
- Strong analytical capability, experience optimizing systems, and ability to frame and solve complex problems.

**We Offer**:

- Our Performance-based Annual Incentive Plan, an annual bonus awarding your performance.
- A share in our success through the Employee Share Purchase Plan and 100% company matching.
- A flexible group benefit plan that offers health and dental coverage choices to meet the needs of each unique employee. Inclusive of life and disability insurances, Health Care and Lifestyle Spending options, and a supportive Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- Participation in Parkland Pledge, an employee-driven charitable giving program.
- An employee referral program - earn up to $2000 for your referral.
- In-house learning and development opportunities, leadership training, international opportunities.
- Discount Programs and Educational Scholarship Programs for family members.
- A safety focused work environment and ongoing safety training.

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