Refinery Economist

Job Responsibilities: Development of the monthly Refinery Operating Plan, fine-tuning of weekly operating signals, and evaluation of feedstock values. Facilitate margin improvement activities at the refinery including economic analyses, LP studies, and project justifications. Develop the oil flow and margin projections for the yearly business plan. Develop business strategies for environmental regulations. Provide project groups with preferred options using economic and market analysis. Lead analysis on product economics including cargo economics, marginal product economics, octane and RVP value. Use economics to help drive in month product optimizations with Supply and Trading organization. Develop and manage program with the Controls group to implement advance controllers that use on-line optimizer economics w/changes in market pricing. Work with Operations Support Engineers, Product & Raw Material System Teams, and Process Project engineers on long term strategy, product optimizations, and constraint removal including provide economic direction for non-capital margin related initiatives/projects Monitor market product pricing, key market indicators (such as inventories), and PADD operating constraints. Engage with Trading organization to understand and provide challenge into current price and volume forecasts based on market analysis. Work with peers at other locations and in Commercial to develop site business strategies Is the site lead for E&P LP and APS projects. Develop and implement strategies to maintain and improve both tools. Participate in the refinery on-call duty rotation schedule for E&P for off-hours support. During periods of abnormal operation specifically related to gasoline blending, occasional after-hours consultation with the Operations Shift Teams is expected. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field. 10+ years of petroleum refining experience a Senior or Lead Process Engineer, or 5+ years experience in economics and planning in petroleum refining