Refinery Economist

Responsibilities:

• Develop and refine the monthly Refinery Operating Plan, adjust weekly operating signals, and evaluate feedstock values.
• Facilitate margin improvement activities at the refinery, including economic analyses, linear programming studies, and project justifications.
• Generate oil flow and margin projections for the annual business plan.
• Formulate business strategies for environmental regulations and provide project groups with preferred options based on economic and market analysis.
• Lead analysis on product economics, including cargo economics, marginal product economics, and octane and RVP value. Utilize economics to drive in-month product optimizations with the Supply and Trading organization.
• Develop and manage a program with the Controls group to implement advanced controllers that use online optimizer economics with changes in market pricing.
• Collaborate with Operations Support Engineers, Product & Raw Material System Teams, and Process Project Engineers on long-term strategy, product optimizations, and constraint removal, offering economic direction for non-capital margin-related initiatives and projects.
• Monitor market product pricing, key market indicators (such as inventories), and PADD operating constraints. Work closely with the Trading organization to understand and challenge current price and volume forecasts based on market analysis.
• Work with peers at other locations and in Commercial to develop site business strategies.
• Act as the site lead for E&P LP and APS projects, developing and implementing strategies to maintain and improve these tools.
• Participate in the refinery on-call duty rotation schedule for E&P for off-hours support. Occasional after-hours consultation with the Operations Shift Teams is expected, particularly during periods of abnormal operation related to gasoline blending.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of petroleum refining experience as a Senior or Lead Process Engineer, or 5+ years of experience in economics and planning in petroleum refining.

If you possess the minimum of 10 and up to 25 years of relevant experience and are looking to take on a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.