Senior External Affairs Advisor & Deputy PIO

Senior External Affairs Advisor & Deputy PIO

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 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 several 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.

As the Senior External Affairs Advisor & Deputy PIO, reporting to the Director, Communications & External Affairs, you will have broad responsibilities for external communications strategic planning, execution and management. Additionally, you will help manage a robust crisis and incident response communications readiness program, including media relations, and serve as Deputy PIO in the site’s Emergency Operating Center.

To be successful, you should have:        

·         Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, public/external affairs, or multi-media production.

·         Minimum of 10 years’ experience in internal and external communications, multi-media production, Intranet and Social Media content development and management, employee engagement, culture enhancement, public or external affairs, stakeholder and media relations, issues resolution, negotiation and crisis/incident response communications.

·         Strong PIO experience working in NIMS ICS and JIC environments. NIMS ICS certification required. Site-based PIO experience preferred but not required.

·         Previous experience in change management, employee engagement, culture enhancement, and international business, preferred.

·         Energy industry experience working in complex operating environments, and manufacturing site-based communications experience preferred.

·         Spanish proficiency strongly preferred by not required.

·         Less than 1 hour drive to/from PEMEX Deer Park site preferred.

Your responsibilities as the Senior External Affairs Advisor will include:

• Collaborate with Director, Communications & External Affairs to develop a comprehensive external communications strategy and values-driven community and industry-focused initiatives for the site that align with business goals and objectives and works to enhance corporate reputation.
• Collaborate with the Internal Communications team to provide external communications planning and implementation for projects and initiatives that require integrated communications.
• Establish success metrics for each initiative to provide discipline in determining the social impact and return on reputation investment outcomes.
• Coordinate with Brand, Design and Multimedia resources, collaborate across multiple departments to foster cross-functional partnerships and research official industry resources to maintain a current and dynamic website and targeted social media presence for PEMEX Deer Park.
• Serve as Deputy Public Information Officer for the site, contribute to maintaining and enhancing the crisis/incident response communication plan and toolkit, and coordinate as needed with third-party on-call PIO support consultants. 
• Develop and implement an effective community outreach strategy and build a supporting volunteer base. Evaluate requests for funding and allocate budget for promotional spending donations and advertising.
• Log all external engagements and financial- and volunteer time-based social investment donations in the site’s External Engagements database for reporting per corporate guidelines and ensure colleagues participating in external engagements are doing the same to ensure complete and accurate documentation.
• Manage a media relations program that protects and enhances the PEMEX Deer Park brand and includes developing positive mainstream news and trade media coverage and positioning opportunities, as well as preparation of statements for media, employees and the community.
• Develop and implement outreach initiatives focused on environment, education, child empowerment, and life skills development, with an emphasis on STEM and future-ready workforce skills.

Additional Information:

Individuals applying for the role must demonstrate the ability to deliver safe, efficient, and quality work in an increasingly cost-competitive environment. Must also be able to demonstrate effective coordination of input from multiple operating, business, and technical organizations to develop projects across multiple technologies/production areas that meet customer requirements with efficient implementation site capital processes.

Benefits:

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.

To Apply:

To respond to this opportunity, please to: https://j.brt.mv/jb.do?reqGK=27763369

We are committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected under applicable law.