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Highly stressful environment from start to end of day. Balancing multiple affiliate monetary forecasts, verification and release of wire, ACH and check payments through multiple company codes, bank accounts and programs required for processing.  

Research returned/rejected payments by bank; coordinating system changes with accounts payable for reversal of items in accounting system pending resolution of items unpaid.

Maintain spreadsheets for future outgoing vendor payments, bond interest payments, processing currency exchange rate requests for invoice payments. Prepare reports for daily, monthly and quarterly reporting.  Problem solve across business lines.

The last position held gave insight to the treasury functions for a multi faceted international entity and, the daily requirements for movement of funds.

Lack of staff with no work/life balance. Gaining management approval for PTO proved impossible.  

Learning new processes and gaining knowledge in the treasury group was enlightening.

•	Designed a program to develop management level skills of a leadership team, in conjunction with the Training function.
•	Developed and maintained a Job Evaluation System in order to rank jobs according to their importance to the organization, participated in salary surveys, and analyzed pay and related data in order to maintain proper internal and external equity of the compensation system.
•	Ensured effectiveness of the Performance Review system by closely monitoring compliance with established guidelines and taking a hands-on approach to resolve inequities.
•	Actualized Policies and Procedures Manual to ascertain compliance with company philosophy.
•	Effectively managed Employee Relations issues by providing guidelines and advising the Plant Client Group in the proper resolution of grievances, discipline, accommodations, and coaching.

If you like working overtime this place is for you. Awesome people for the most part but we can’t stick to a schedule to save our life. Our staffing level is way too low to properly maintain this facility. Hourly employees tend to feel more like contractors when it comes to HR and we are so few that we can’t even get training outside of regulatory training. We stick together as a shop but sometimes we are so few we do not even have enough people to properly cover the overtime. I think there is a lot of potential here to improve and I have hope that the future will be brighter. I have worked at many worse places. This plant is not a shark tank environment. For the most part from upper management down we have each other’s back and no one is just out to get you. We simply cannot afford to have that mentality.

- Typical work day 9-10hrs
- learned about bulk fuel storage facilites and management, aviation operations and aviation fueling operations, taker receipt operations, oil spill response, API Standards 
- Upper Management cares only about the bottom line, provide little to no support to mid level managers, no coaching or mentoring provided
- The hardest part of the job was having no support from HR to deal with toxic subordiantes
- The daily challenges of running a bulk petroleum storage and distribution facility.

The Port Arthur Refinery (PAR) is a great place to start if you are trying to learn the industry, no matter what your specialty is. It is a place where you will learn and do your job, and get good at it. This is because there is no one else to do it for you. You will get the necessary training, but ultimately it is on you to get good at and get it done. For most this is not a problem, however some will be in for a reality check. The reason it is imperative to learn your job and get good at is because they are under staffed in many areas, this can require a lot of overtime, which in the beginning is fine, but work life balance is compromised. 

If you like living at your place of employment and writing your own check, boy is this the place for you. 

Never fully staffed on any unit, people constantly calling in sick. Turnarounds galore. 

Unlimited overtime. You can be involved in every turnaround whether you want to or not. Lots of outdated barely functioning equipment and when something goes wrong, get ready to defend yourself in a HR courtroom setting like you’re a criminal. 
Company always wants to point the finger at operations instead of recognizing the real issue is we as operators are working with equipment 20+ years behind every other refinery. 

Experience in Offshore operation & maintenance planning, project planning, on shore planning co ordination, operation planning, and TA planning.
 	Experience including establishing and operating project controls and planning systems in the oil industry.
 	Experience in oil company or engineering project management contractor.
 	Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with Asset management, vendors, and sub contractors.
 	SAP knowledge in both Plant Maintenance (PM) & Material Management(MM).
 	Integrated Planning experience to be able to coordinate operations, engineering, construction & maintenance

Total has provided a good living for many years and allowed advancement to a point.  It is a French company still in the grip of the turmoil of moving from a middle tier  E&P/Petrochemical company to an oil major after absorbing Fina and Elf about 15 years ago.  There are not many opportunities for advancement for those who did not attend school in France or for those who do not wish an overseas assignment.  But, all-in-all it has been a good place to work.

Every day is different. Projects are challenging and rewarding.  Very fertile environment for career growth. Mutual respect from top management  Had lots of memories with meeting project deadlines and resolution of very problematic assignments which added great capital port folio to the company.

I am super proud to have started my earlier career with TotalEnergies

It's a France company and tries to control everything from there. A lot of micromanagement. No internal mobility. Do not provide any opportunity to grow your carrier at all. 
But a good place to start learning. A lot of responsibility and learning opportunities to work in the field. Engineers start as learning opportunity and moves on to other better places where they would appreciate the experiences and work. 

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