Economics Planning Specialist​/Engineer AD0D

Economics Planning Specialist/Engineer
Southern KS

Required Experience:

• Refinery operations
• Optimization

• Bachelor's Chemical Engineering

James Lyons
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James Lyons
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AD0D-330

Responsible for supporting the commercial and operational optimization of assets at the plant, with a focus on planning and scheduling refinery operations, defining operational targets, and maximizing overall profitability. This position has a direct and immediate impact on asset performance and value creation. Additional responsibilities could 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.

• Optimize blending and product scheduling to meet quality specification, minimize giveaway, and maximize profitability across refinery operations.
• Determine optimum combination of feedstock, process unit utilization, operating conditions and product slate to maximize plant profitability.
• Collaborates with leadership in major projects, crude supply, clean products, operations, and finance to develop and evaluate opportunities.
• Tasks will be assigned based on skill set and capabilities, but may include other tasks core to the commercial optimization of our production facilities.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities including shipping schedules, blending instructions, reporting, and operational communication to ensure seamless execution and alignment.
• Provide feedback to operations so timely corrective actions can be taken to continuously move operations towards optimal for maximization of profits.
• Manage and forecast inventories of feed stocks, intermediates, and finished products to support production, marketing, and logistics decisions.
• Develop short and long-term operational plans for maximizing plant profitability.
• Utilize crude assay management software and refinery LP model to evaluate crude oils and feed stocks for purchase or sale and ensure models are tuned to refinery yields for optimized planning and forecasting.
• Regularly communicate with supervisor work progress, issues or process improvements.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field. Engineering degree preferred.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in refinery or process industry. Optimization or commercial experience considered favorable.
• Demonstrated strong working knowledge of the fundamentals of refinery operations.
• Experience with refinery LP modeling software, scheduling software, crude assay management software is an advantage.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite preferred.
• Leadership experience preferred.
• Ability to adjust schedule to meet changing business priorities.
• Fluent in English, oral and written required.
• Effective written/verbal communication, interpersonal and administrative skills.