Economics & Planning Specialist/Engineer

Position Summary

This position is responsible for supporting the commercial and operational optimization of company assets, with a focus on planning and scheduling refinery operations, defining operational targets, and maximizing overall profitability. Key areas of responsibility can include feedstock evaluation and selection, inventory management, clean product blending, and product scheduling. The role also contributes to strategic planning, production budgeting, capital project evaluations, and commercial business development. This position has a direct and immediate impact on asset performance and value creation.

- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field required. Engineering degree preferred.

Experience Requirements

- 4 years of experience in refinery or process industry required. Optimization or commercial experience preferred

- Leadership experience preferred

- Demonstrated strong working knowledge of the fundamentals of refinery operations

- Experience with refinery LP modeling software, scheduling software, crude assay management software preferred

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite preferred

- Fluent in English, oral and written required

- Strong written/verbal communication, interpersonal and administrative skills

- Ability to adjust schedule to meet business demands

Major Accountabilities

- Responsibilities will be assigned based on candidate’s skill set and capabilities but can include any or all tasks core to the commercial optimization of our production facilities.

- Optimize blending and product scheduling to meet quality specification, minimize giveaway, and maximize profitability across refinery operations

- Coordinate cross-functional activities including shipping schedules, blending instructions, reporting, and operational communication to ensure seamless execution and alignment

- Manage and forecast inventories of feedstocks, intermediates, and finished products to support production, marketing, and logistics decisions.

- Determine optimum combination of feedstock, process unit utilization, operating conditions and product slate to maximize plant profitability

- Mentor and develop optimization capabilities and skill sets within team and supporting organization

- Develop short and long term operational plans for maximizing plant profitability

- Collaborates with leadership in major projects, crude supply, clean products, operations, and finance to develop and evaluate opportunities

- Provide feedback to operations so timely corrective actions can be taken to continuously move operations towards optimal for maximization of profits

- Use crude assay management software and refinery LP model to evaluate crude oils and feedstocks for purchase or sale and ensure models are tuned to refinery yields for optimized planning and forecasting

- Keep planning models, other software and spreadsheet tools up-to-date

- Regularly communicate with supervisor work progress, issues or process improvements.

- Exposure to work near potentially volatile and combustible materials and chemicals.

- Exposure to work near potentially volatile and combustible materials and chemicals.

EXPECTED RESULTS

- Efficient, effective and measurable workflow for the Department

- Timely communication with appropriate staff for optimizing issues which could impact the day-to-day operations of the Refinery

- Established and maintained effective working relationships with applicable department leadership and executives

- Exceptional and ongoing customer satisfaction provided to all internal and external stakeholders

- Adherence to all company policies and procedures.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States. The Company will not sponsor immigration or work visas.