Delek US reviews

2.9

36% would recommend to a friend

(353 total reviews)
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Avigal Soreq

45% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Delek US has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 353 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Delek US employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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353 reviews
2.0
Aug 25, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Because of high turnover and inability to attract talent, you have the opportunity to take on roles which would take sometimes decades more time to be eligible for. This is true all the way up to Executive Leadership.

Cons

Unimaginable turnover. The vast majority of engineers have less than 5yrs experience out of school. Many operations folks are also inexperienced and due to understaffing never had an opportunity for skill handover before the experienced person left. We have had SEVERAL multi generational, leadership level operations people quit the company on the spot in the past 6mo-1yr Chaotic environment with lack of strategic alignment, constant fighting over positions which causes silos and duplication of efforts. Corporate initiatives are numerous, rampant, and often have had zero interaction with the stakeholders prior to committing all the way to a project schedule on completely unheard of things. people leading complex initiatives with zero experience in that space. No awareness as a whole on what initiatives are actually happening or the bandwidth available to support them Many people in leadership are unreasonably aggressive and woefully unequipped

1.0
Jan 29, 2020

Yep, nothing is going to change

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fair bonus structure Yearly AIP bonus/salary increases Good co-workers, humor Got some snazzy coffee machines

Cons

Little consideration of work-life balance unless you luck out and get a good boss. Computer systems SUCK! Everything we do is manual! Revolving door of employees, bosses, initiatives that don’t work, stress, drama.....and then we do it all over again. Tough seeing good talent leave. Move cubes/offices on average every 6-9 months because management doesn’t seem to understand that they can actually lease more space. Would rather waste time playing musical cubes.

1.0
Jul 30, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is good compared to non-energy sector jobs and is very good for the area (South Arkansas). Average 401k match. Stocks and bonuses are good sometimes but are awarded rather unpredictably. Career experience is like dog years due to all the issues at this facility. 1 year working here is similar to 7 years working for another facility. Lots to learn but it comes at a cost.

Cons

The facility is shockingly unsafe. The management preaches safety, but it’s all about the bottom dollar and money always takes priority over safety in the end. If you value your body and your life, don’t work here. Plenty of people have been injured and it’s only a matter of time until something worse happens. Pay is well below average compared to other refinery jobs. Forget about work life balance as it doesn’t exist for Salaried Employees and your pay certainly doesn’t reflect the extra hours and no compensation time is ever awarded. 60+ hour work weeks are the norm and not the exception with plenty of unexpected night work/shifts thrown in. Managers have been called to come back to work from vacation with their families. Corporate ran off all the long time staff and replaced them with cookie-cutter managers that do exactly what they say and when that doesn’t work, their subordinates take the fall. Employee turnover is extraordinarily high at the El Dorado Refinery which has resulted in a lack of leadership and mentors on the salaried staff and has fostered a blind leading the blind environment. No one (including managers) stays long enough to get good at their job which has the El Dorado plant stuck in a vicious cycle of always training new employees just for them to leave for greener pastures. But why would anybody stay when the conditions are so bad? This has become nothing more than a career experience booster for almost everyone who currently works there. The town is not the best place to live or raise a family either. Please don’t leave a good job or uproot your entire family to move to El Dorado, Ar and work for this company.

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