Accelerate, the company’s training program for new managers, graduated its first cohort of participants in June. The manager development program brought together employees from every division for a monthly two-day session for four months. Participants learned about team building and cooperative basics, people management, key business measures, and effective leadership. Betty Levian, store manager of…
There’s a new process to get things going if you’ve got a multi-department project you want to kickstart. Write up a brief description of the project and send it to [email protected]. Justi Montague, director of operational efficiency and data governance, and Brian Hynek, senior program manager, will review all submissions. They will then conduct a…
A refreshed company website is now online. The marketing department launched the redesigned mfaoil.com on Saturday morning. “It’s been a long time coming and something that we have been working hard on for quite a while,” says Ashley Bower, senior marketing manager. Visitors to the site will notice it has received a complete makeover. The…
A number of departments and teams at the Home Office are being reorganized to better serve the needs of the company. Jeff Raetz, chief financial officer, has restructured many of the departments that report to him, including accounting and finance, accounts payable, accounts receivable, Break Time accounting, credit, fixed assets accounting, inventory accounting, auditing, Petro-Card…
The MFA Oil Company Board of Directors has named Jon Ihler interim chief executive officer effective April 25, 2019. Ihler will be responsible for overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations of the refined fuel, propane, Petro-Card 24, Break Time, Big O Tires and Jiffy Lube operations across an eight-state region. Ihler succeeds Mark Fenner, who had…
The following column is written by Mark Fenner, president and CEO, and was originally published in the Fall 2018 issue of Momentum magazine. Choices. Don’t you love them? Whether it’s an ice cream flavor, a pair of jeans or the vehicle we drive, most of us like to have options. The same thing applies to…
The annual open enrollment period for the company’s benefit plan is nearly halfway through. This year’s period began on Monday, Oct. 29 and will continue through Friday, Nov. 9. This is your annual opportunity to enroll in new benefit plans or make changes to your existing coverage. If you do not plan to change your…
Roads and bridges in Missouri are underfunded and deteriorating due to a lack of resources to repair them. Show-Me State voters have an opportunity to address the situation by increasing the state’s gas tax for the first time since 1996. For twenty-two years, gas in Missouri has been taxed at a fixed 17 cents per…
Nearly 30 students visited the Home Office for an Internship Showcase event on October 26 to learn about opportunities at MFA Oil and talk with hiring managers. Students were welcomed by Mark Fenner, president and CEO, and then heard from employees representing 12 departments about summer internship possibilities. The event allowed interns to network with…
Before long, a couple of quick taps of the Toughpad will be all it takes for drivers to clock in and out of work. A new app developed for the tablets installed in fuel and propane trucks is undergoing field testing and could soon lead to quick, on-the-go time entry for drivers. The app is…
When MFA Oil acquired Basin Propane in Vernal, Utah, it stretched the company’s western presence far beyond the cooperative’s traditional operating territory. Since that acquisition in 2015, the propane plant in Vernal has served as MFA Oil’s only outpost west of the Rocky Mountains until now. This spring, a new propane plant was opened in…
MFA Oil has transitioned transactions for Petro-Card 24 sites and Preferred Card sales to the Enterprise One (E1) system. The changeover to E1 will consolidate operations and allow inventories to be tracked daily rather than on a monthly basis as it was in the old legacy system. “In the grand scheme of things not much…