Senior VCO Engineer – Short-Range, Refined Fuels

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.