Crude Planning & Optimization Engineer III

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Houston, TX

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About The Position

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. Position Summary Commercial has an opening for the position of Crude Planning & Optimization Engineer .This position will report to the Planning and Optimization Director. The candidate will collaborate daily with crude oil traders, schedulers, and Value Chain Optimization personnel to develop an optimal regional crude slate. To be successful, the candidate should be results driven with strong organizational and interpersonal skills, an effective communicator, and have curiosity to further develop advanced understanding of refinery operations, economics, and market dynamics across the value chain. Commercial views this as a growth opportunity for a motivated employee seeking to gain knowledge in crude logistics and trading, refinery economics, worldwide crude economics, and MPC’s commercial business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Four (4) years relevant experience
• Action Planning
• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• Communication
• Continuous Learning
• Critical Thinking
• Decision Making
• Innovation
• Problem Solving
• Results Driven
• Teamwork

Nice To Haves

• Technical Services or Economics & Planning experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Manages the commercial aspects of regional refinery feedstock selection, incorp orating product and intermediate placement, supply chain optimization, and market analysis into decisions.
• Demonstrates an advanced understanding of refinery operations, economics, and market dynamics for multiple refineries.
• Able to mentor junior engineers in planning and optimization strategies.
• Leads collaboration meetings within the value chain to discuss both local and regional economic drivers.
• Understands how regional plans for multiple refineries are developed, optimized , and executed for multiple refineries using linear programming simulation models.
• Modifies feedstock plans as needed to adjust to demand/margin changes.
• Accurately incorporates modeling constraints to match real life refinery operating constraints.
• Leads end-to-end feedstock evaluations , from data gathering to final recommendation.
• Develops sophisticated economic models and sensitivity analyses to assess risk and uncertainty.
• Collaborates with trading to align strategies and optimize outcomes.
• Interfaces with refinery leadership to communicate recommendations and gain alignment.
• Leads the feedstock analysis of backcast data , considering factors such as production efficiency, cost drivers, and market conditions.
• Conducts in-depth root cause analysis to identify factors influencing historical performance deviations.
• Collaborates with natural work teams to implement corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

• Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement.
• Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com .
• The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees