Senior External Affairs Advisor

Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership (DPRLP) known as PEMEX Deer Park is a highly complex refinery located 18 miles east of Houston in Deer Park, TX, and is a part of the PEMEX group which is a fully integrated oil company in the Americas, working across the entire value chain: exploration, production, industrial processing/refining, logistics and marketing. PEMEX Deer Park provides a diverse and inclusive work environment that employs approximately 1000 employees with another 1200 contractors on site.

The refinery’s rated capacity is 340,000 barrels per day and has the feed flexibility to process multiple grades of crudes to produce the high-quality transportation fuels the world needs. The PEMEX Deer Park site is co-located with other 3rd party chemical facilities allowing for further integration and optimization of the refinery and its products. We set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors and offer challenging and fulfilling job opportunities in a number of fields.

We take great pride in our ability to ensure the health and safety of our workers and the environment while being a good neighbor and have a positive impact on the local community where we work.

We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and an extensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.

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This is a highly visible position with broad responsibilities for primarily external affairs planning, execution and measurement. This position reports directly to the Manager, Communications & External Affairs (& Public Information Officer “PIO”).

In collaboration with the Manager, Comms & External Affairs, helps maintain robust crisis and incident response communications readiness plans, toolkits and activities, including media relations, and serves as Deputy PIO in the site’s Emergency Operating Center. On a day-to-day basis, the Sr. External Affairs Advisor works in coordination with the Manager, Comms & External Affairs, colleagues and external stakeholders to help deliver high-impact external relations and social performance initiatives and activities in the neighboring communities and industry organizations.

S/he also collaborates with the Internal Communications team, as assigned, to deliver integrated communications campaigns and projects and maintain flexibility in the Communications team providing timely counsel and deliverables to meet the diverse communications and stakeholder engagement needs of the site.

• Collaborate with the Manager, Communications & External Affairs to implement a comprehensive external communications strategy and values-driven community and industry-focused initiatives for the site that align with business goals and objectives and enhance corporate reputation. The scope of external communications includes issues management, media, social media and community relations, social investment, strategic positioning, and external stakeholder relations.
• Collaborate with the Internal Communications team to provide external communications planning and implementation for projects and initiatives that require integrated communications and to help balance the Communications team’s overall workload.
• Establish success metrics for each initiative to provide discipline in determining the social impact and return on reputation investment outcomes.
• Stay abreast of industry and National Incident Management System Incident Command System (NIMS) best practices that can continuously improve the site’s overall and incident response communications programs.
• Collaborate with the Communications team to help drive change, influence and enhance site culture and reputation…