Description:

Valero’s products fuel modern life and make a better future possible. Join a 40-year legacy of excellence and find your future with us! Exceptional students bring their game-day best to our internship program each year. This year, will it be you?

The internship program inspires tomorrow’s innovators by developing highly motivated students who are ready for challenging projects in the following areas:

• Product Supply and Trading
• Crude Oil Supply and Trading
• Transportation (Rail and Marine)
• Wholesale Marketing

Interns will work in a collaborative environment to complete special projects that will be presented to senior management. Major accountabilities will include the following:

• Analyzing different business lines to determine profitability and to recommend improvements
• Strategizing entrances and exits of different markets
• Recommendations for optimizing supply systems
• Evaluation trading strategies

Interns will have exposure in some of the following departments:

• Product Supply and Trading *

  • Trades through bulk channels to maximize profit
  • Schedules 120 million gallons per day of product movements via barge, pipeline, truck, ship, or rail and ensures correct type, quantity, and timing of the load/unload activity
  • Manages appropriate inventory positions that balance the existing market conditions, wholesale forecasts, production schedules, and logistic constraints to keep terminals adequately supplied and refineries balanced
  • Communicates clearly with traders, refinery personnel, wholesale, terminal operators, and logistics operators to develop a schedule
  • Manages secondary costs to move products in the most cost effective manner

Crude Oil Supply and Trading

• Purchases 3 million barrels of crude each day that provide the greatest economic value to Valero’s refining assets
• Generates financial gains by buying and selling barrels of crude

*Transportation (Rail and Marine) *

• Coordinates the most cost efficient shipping activities and railcar requirements between marketing, plants, and customers
• Ensures on time performance
• Interacts with railroad companies' support teams on service issues, trip plans, and diversions

*Wholesale Marketing *

• Interacts with customers and distributors to ensure that refined products are sold into markets that generate the highest profit
• Manages branded and unbranded channels by working with distributors

This position is hourly nonexempt status, which means you are eligible for overtime pay.

Qualifications:
* Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Energy Management, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Distribution, Economics, or related field required. * Overall GPA of 3.0 (or higher) on a 4.0 scale preferred. * Obtained at least 60 credit hours by the start of summer internship required (May 19, 2025). * Graduation dates of August 2025 through May 2026 required. * Ability to work 40 hours per week during the summer required. * Able and willing to work in-person at the Valero Headquarters in San Antonio during the internship required.

Please include the following in your resume:

• Overall GPA and Major
• Expected Graduation Date

Note: Valero’s pre-employment process includes successful completion of a background check, drug screen, and pre-employment physical (if applicable).

About the Valero Intern Program

The Valero Intern Program fuels a broader company mission to develop reliable, affordable and sustainable energy through innovation, ingenuity and unmatched execution. When you join Valero, you can expect to work with teams that are inclusive and results-driven while celebrating every employee’s strengths and ideas.

Valero is an EEO/AA Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected status, including race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Please be advised, if you are viewing this position on a website that lists an estimated salary rate/range, it was not provided by Valero. Valero’s market specific salary rate/range will be provided during the recruiting process and tends to be higher than what is estimated by such websites.

Job: Intern
Primary Location: US-TX-San Antonio
Req ID: 24001DN