Marathon Petroleum Mock Interview
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Question 2 of 30
You will often be working cross-departmentally. Tell me about a time you worked successfully with people outside of your department.
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Collaboration and teamwork are significant topics in the oil and gas industry. There will be many opportunities for you to work alongside different people in varying roles, functions, and departments. The interviewer would like to know that you can work closely with others even when their job functions may not be exactly like yours. Your ability to work with cross-functional teams will be a significant asset to Marathon Petroleum.
Maybe you headed a project which required you to collaborate with the members of the engineering and HR teams. You may have had the opportunity to organize a volunteer activity or team building exercise, company-wide. Share any challenges that came up and what you learned from the experience.
"I have worked in a cross-functional setting for many years. Primarily with the Engineering department and the HR department, arranging various contractors and agreements. Clear communication and clarity in expectations are of huge importance to me, and you can rest assured that I would work cohesively with any department."
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I work with the scheduling department, blending coordinators, supervision, and technicians. We had lost an MCC at my current workplace and before I called a technician I wanted to troubleshoot as far as I could. I found one of our substations had a trip on the 4160. I called the technician and told him what I had found. He was able to find when he got there that a short in another one of our MCCs had caused the power trip. With me being there for his safety in case anything happened he was able to successfully fix the problem and get the pump station back up as quickly and safely as possible.
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It's great that you have experience working with other departments and have provided a clear example of this. Make sure, however, that you don't use jargon and acronyms in your response that the interviewer won't understand (like MCC and 4160). If you must use these words, make them as self-explanatory as possible. Otherwise, great job!
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