Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 2, No. 49 - December 3, 2020
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Walker Takes Over the Leadership Reins
at the Chevron El Segundo Refinery
By Duane Plank
Soon-to-be El Segundo resident Frederick
Walker has once again ascended the corporate
company ladder at the Chevron Corporation;
he recently was selected as the new general
manager at the El Segundo plant, replacing
the retired Henry Kusch, at the sprawling
facility that is bordered on the north by El
Segundo Boulevard and has been an El Segundo
institution for more than 100 years.
Walker, who began tackling his new job
duties in October, and his wife Selena are
currently living in Playa Vista, but Walker
is confident that he will be relocating to El
Segundo in the next month.
The refinery that Walker oversees blankets
more than 1,000 acres of land, employs
more than 1,100 workers, interfaces within
the neighborhood of 500 contractors, and is
touted as the largest producing oil refinery on
the west coast, processing more than 276,000
barrels of crude oil per day.
The 46-year-old Walker, born and raised
in Central Mississippi, lived in the Magnolia
State until his mid-30’s. As he was navigating
through his high school years, he said
that one day his father brought home a
copy of the U.S. News and World Report
magazine, and counseled his son to take a
look at the paper, and start thinking about
a career pathway, post-high school. Walker
said that, at that time, chemical engineering
rated highly on the job pay scale, so Walker
thought “that is a good place to start.” He
eventually learned more about chemical engineering,
noting that “I was always a math
and science kind of person.”
Walker attended Mississippi State University,
where he grasped the opportunity to
participate in the Chevron Co-op program,
which, he said, was “a way for me to get
some actual work experience, and see what
I was getting myself into.” He interviewed
for the program as a freshman and spent
four semesters working at the Pascagoula
Refinery while he was pursuing his undergraduate
degree, gaining knowledge about
what chemical engineers’ duties entailed
in the fields of oil and energy. Basically, a
paid internship. “It allowed me to get some
experience and earn some money,” he said,
as he worked his way through college.
Walker landed a job with Chevron at the
Pascagoula refinery, post-graduation, as a
process engineer. He would continue to gain
experience in the industry, working as an oil
planning analyst, process engineering lead,
operations assistant, and operations section
head, and continued on the education
pathway, notching an MBA from Tulane
University in 2006.
In 2009, Walker’s career landed him in the
Golden State, where he worked as Chevron’s
business planning analyst for downstream
manufacturing in No Cal’s San Ramon. He
also held posts as the operations section head
and oils planning manager at the first-in-thenation
for Standard Oil Richmond refinery.
He then sojourned to El Segundo to take on
the job as refinery business manager.
Walker continued to strengthen his knowledge
base about the intricacies of the daily
operations of the Chevron Corporation, later
working as a manufacturing and supply chain
manager in Belle Chase, Louisiana, responsible
for the company’s management and manufacturing
of assets in Oak Point, Louisiana,
as well as Maua, Brazil.
Next on Walker’s rising timeline, in 2019,
he became vice-president of strategy, planning
and technology for the corporation, with
responsibilities including leading “downstream
and chemicals strategy formation,” and delving
into and devising planning options for
refining and marketing, lubricants, and the
companies petrochemical business, as well
as process and information technology.
Walker’s background of successfully filling
multiple roles made him an obvious candidate
to fill the general manager slot in El Segundo
once Kusch decided to retire.
Lily Craig, Chevron’s external affairs manager,
feels that the company made a great
Fredrick Walker See Walker, page 5