If you sent a job to the Total Remuneration department to be graded and the job description included "data entry" the job would most certainly come back with a low non exempt pay grade. But that is what the refineries have engineers doing, data entry. When drawings and equipment databases need to be updated, the process if for the highest paid and highest skilled people to sit at a computer and do tedious data entry instead of handing this off to staff. This is just stupid. And to add insult to injury, there is no org wide initiative to entertain work process improvement opportunities. If we raise this as an opportunity, there is no mechanism to hear it or act upon it. This breeds mediocrity. Let the engineers do engineering work and project management, and hand off the lower level work to cheaper employees. What are we doing here? How about you go back in the wayback machine and read Tom Peters instead of worrying about the cost of coffee and copy paper.
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Refinery engineers are the most abused exempt people in Chevron these days. DM&C only helps when it is advantageous for them to do so. TP&E has charge codes. ENGINE isn't skilled enough. All of these groups take too long to get involved due to absurdly complex work request processes - again, if they even want to help. Therefore, refinery engineers are doing far more than just optimizing day-to-day operations. This wasn't what the re-org intended. Also, with centralization to Houston, promotions are going to be rare to impossible. My advice: upskill and leave Chevron when the job market improves.
@ar, Oh yes, those guys working at refineries are slackers but you stuffed shirts in the office are not. I think I've heard it all now ROTFLMAO!
This is the natural progression of decompexifying Refining and Refining expectations as was envisaged in Accelerate Downstream.
@OP Maybe it’s because they are slackers. Seriously though the systems they use are antiquated at best. 30 years old at worst. That’s always been a refinery problem. Try running a refinery with applications that won’t work in Azure. Not to mention the issue with security in an old refinery Network with the modern business Network. They simply are not in compliance with audits and always have been. But hey, the refinery is over a hundred years old. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Good luck.