Engineering Intern – summer 2025

About Valero Energy Inc.

Valero Energy Inc., with its Canadian head office in Montreal, is a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. We are the leading distributor of petroleum products in Quebec, the Atlantic provinces and Ontario—and the world’s second-largest producer of renewable diesel fuel and ethanol. We stand out as the second-largest petroleum refiner in eastern Canada, thanks to our Jean-Gaulin Refinery in Lévis. We also possess numerous major logistical infrastructures, such as the Montreal East Terminal.

Our success? We owe it to our 10,000 employees who are committed to our values—including safety, environmental stewardship, teamwork, community engagement and operational excellence. 

We consider our employees our most important asset and provide a wide variety of stimulating jobs for those seeking to grow professionally. Our salaries and benefits—along with our retirement savings plan, which ranks among Canada’s Top 5 in terms of employer contributions—are highly competitive. These are some of the reasons we are known as an employer of choice.

About the position :

Interning with our Maintenance & Integrity Department represents a great opportunity to gain work experience in your field of study.

You will report to the senior reliability engineer and be called on to participate in various projects dealing with the technical development of the Maintenance Department. Among other things, you will be expected to contribute to the improvement of our planning and maintenance processes, establish yourself as a SAP Maintenance user and have a hand in several maintenance projects.

Moreover, you will be assisting the reliability engineer in the development of procedures, the review of equipment failures, the implementation of new work practices and the automation of maintenance work management. The projects assigned to you will require you to develop equipment records, improve the performance of certain equipment, monitor the condition of Terminal assets, identify reliability problems and potential solutions; and take part in the review of various preventive maintenance programs.

You will also be called on to take part in various multidisciplinary projects and offer support to project engineers.

The requisite training pertaining to your duties and to health, safety and environmental matters will be provided after you start.  Personal protective equipment, including safety boots, will be provided.

• A student in a program leading to a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering
• Bilingualism (English and French) is an asset
• Extensive autonomy
•  Aptitudes for communication and teamwork.

The work site located at 7000 Marien Avenue in Montreal-East is not easy to reach by public transit. However, free parking is provided on the premises. The incumbent will be required to work 35 or 40 hours a week from Monday to Friday.

The period of employment is from May to August 2025, which could be extended depending on the interest of the person selected or the team’s requirements. 

Valero Energy Inc. is governed by the Charter of the French Language. However, a functional knowledge of English is considered necessary for performing certain tasks of this position.  The individual in this position may be called upon to interact with various stakeholders such as: clients, suppliers, unilingual English-speaking business partners.

Valero Energy is an employment equity employer. We encourage all those meeting the selection criteria to send us their application. It will be reviewed without consideration of statuses protected by law, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, minorities and individuals with disabilities.