# Principal Process Engineer – Hydroprocessing

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 Principal Process Engineer - Hydroprocessing is a senior process engineering specialist who identifies, leads, and communicates projects and technical work that improve unit performance, reliability, cycle length, and margin capture. The role plans and executes multi-disciplinary work, partners closely with Operations and Maintenance, and provides high level troubleshooting and startup support for complex unit issues. The Principal operates with substantial autonomy, aligning efforts with site and corporate priorities, and collaborates with Directors and Advisors as needed to resolve critical problems and standardize best practices. At Valero, this role performs duties that support our commitment to advancing the future of energy through innovation, ingenuity, and unmatched execution, including: Identifies high impact improvement opportunities in assigned process units and develops clear project / turnaround scope, value cases, and execution plans

- **Id**: 4244262
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/valero-principal-process-engineer-hydroprocessing>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Antonio, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:21:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 15
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 13553
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- **Benefits**: Cafeteria, Wellness
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Professional Services

## Company

- **Id**: 1806372
- **Name**: Valero
- **Domain**: valero.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/valero>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 15

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:21:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 75
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.832
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 15
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T13:52:38Z

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