Director of LP Models and Economic Tools

PBF Energy • Martinez, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Director of LP Models and Economic Tools PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE:PBF) is one of the largest independent refiners in North America, operating through its subsidiaries, oil refineries and related facilities. We are seeking a talented Director of LP Models and Economic Tools to join our team as a pivotal member that would play a key role here at PBF Energy. This role would be located onsite at our Company headquarters in Parsippany, NJ or at one of our refinery locations. The Director of LP Models and Economic Tools will support all the refineries by supervising and leading the oversight of tools utilized by both Refinery and Corporate personnel to optimize the most profitable feedstock and product decisions. This position’s team will work to test, update, and improve, the Linear Programming (LP) models to assist planning analysts to help guide the decision making process, which are central to our business including but not limited to: what feeds to buy, what products to make, and what processing unit targets to run to. For the LP Model to be useful, it must be properly designed and maintained to accurately represent raw material properties, process unit yields, and process, blending and supply/demand constraints. This position will lead both direct employees as well as set the direction for contractors on the continuous improvement of these economic tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required.
• Minimum of 10 years of experiences in refinery process engineering or economics and planning.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in LP structure development.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Desire to learn and be challenged by complex problems.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive approach to job assignments.
• Ability to travel to multiple sites (approximately 10-20%).
• Position can be at any of the refineries.
• This position is on site 5 days a week.
• ONLY CANDIDATES MEETING THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE CONSIDERED.
• FOR SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SALARY REQUIREMENTS.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to ensure the continuous improvement of the Linear Programming (LP) models to assist planning analysts to help guide the decision making process including; what feeds to buy, what products to make, and what processing unit targets to run to.
• Develop a process and ensure the team is backcasting each of the major processes in the refinery and the results are used to update the refinery LP’s.
• Develop a standard backcasting process which compares LP model predictions to actual process unit yields on an ongoing basis to ensure that process yields are accurate.
• Responsible for understanding industry advancements in LP technology, when and how to advance the economic tools PBF utilizes, ensure employees are trained on these advances and uses, and chose what outside companies and contracts to utilize in this area.
• Ensure the crude oil library management system is updated and reviewed.
• Understand new industry advances in LP’s and develop expertise within PBF in building LP models and the associated software.
• Develop other economic and scheduling tools (Aspen Petroleum Scheduler, unit economic models, etc.)
• Develop training classes for LP users across the PBF system which cover a) crude oil characterization, b) refinery processing emphasizing what determines yields, c) gasoline and distillate blending, d) LP setup and interpretation.

Benefits

• In addition to salary, PBF offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes bonus eligibility, health care, retirement benefits, and paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees