Key skills
LeadershipCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Prepare and present the monthly refinery operations plan.
- Develop refinery production plans including throughput, crude slate, yields, blending strategies, and inventory targets.
- Conduct monthly post-audits and benchmarking analysis to evaluate refinery performance against plan.
- Analyze crude refining values and provide short-term economic optimization recommendations.
- Support refinery response to operational changes, unit outages, constraint shifts, or market movements.
- Interface with crude oil scheduling, refinery operations, and laboratory personnel to ensure production orders are operationalized through the refinery.
- Maintain refinery LP model database, including integration of unit test run data and operational updates.
- Monitor unit operations and yields and update LP inputs as appropriate.
- Support maintenance of LP configuration for refinery inputs, processes, blending operations, and inventory options.
- Maintain refinery crude assay database and ensure accurate crude quality representation.
- Ensure alignment between LP assumptions and actual refinery operating conditions.
- Support economic studies to facilitate refinery and commercial decisions.
- Prepare economic analysis for initiatives including discounted cash flow and payout evaluations.
- Prepare performance reports and communicate economic results to refinery leadership.
- Identify operational improvement opportunities through economic and yield analysis.
- Collaborate with refinery operations, process engineering, supply teams, and commercial stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (B. S.) in applicable engineering field of study from an accredited four-year college or university
- 4+ years experience in refinery or related downstream energy experience.
- Understanding of crude oil refinery processes.
- Working knowledge of linear programming concepts and refinery LP models.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to manage dynamic operational variables.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal relationship skills.
- Experience supporting refinery economic analysis or optimization initiatives.
- Knowledge of refinery LP systems such as Haverly GRTMPS or similar linear programming software.
- Knowledge of process simulation tools such as Petro-SIM or Aspen HYSYS.
- Oil & Gas industry experience.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- wellness programs
- life insurance
- health and dependent care spending accounts
- paid time off
- 401(k)
- pension
- profit sharing
- short
- and long-term disability
- tuition reimbursement
- adoption assistance