Logistics Optimization Modeling Engineer/Professional

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Carson, CA

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: The Operations Research (OR) group within the Refining organization enhances and supports the planning, optimization, simulation, scheduling and blending software applications used by the value chain optimization, commercial, refining and other organizations within the Company - not only to run and optimize the day-to-day business, but also to develop the Company's long-term asset investment strategy. This successful candidate is responsible for designing, building, and supporting models that are used to optimize regional supply transportation logistics for various organizations/commodities. This may include Lt Products, Crude, Asphalt, Propylene or other commodities for short and/or long term optimization utilizing Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain Planner (PSCP)/Distribution Planning Optimization (DPO), AIMMS, and other tools. The technology landscape for these models is changing, so it will be important to keep up with evolving technology and experiment with novel approaches. Opportunities will exist for consulting with multiple business units within MPC to aid in the development of solutions to drive profitability. Travel for this position is less than 10%

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Supply/Logistics Optimization, Chemical Engineering or a related degree is required.
Five plus years of logistics optimization experience and/or petroleum refining is required.
Proficiency with Excel is required.
Experience implementing, maintaining, debugging and testing complex models

Nice To Haves

Higher consideration will be given to candidates with experience developing models in Python.
Higher consideration will be given to candidates with AIMMS experience.
Higher consideration will be given to candidates with Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain Planner (PSCP) aka Distribution Planning Optimization (DPO)
Experience with SQL and SSMS is beneficial.

Responsibilities

Identify value-add optimization opportunities and work with the business to translate real world transportation and logistics challenges into mathematical models.
Develop new optimization models to fit emerging business cases.
Upgrade existing models to more modern technology.
Assist with integration between optimization models and other internal systems
Support, enhance, and maintain AspenTech Petroleum Supply Chain Planner (PSCP/DPO), AIMMS or other models, both single as well as multi-period. Models may be commodity and/or regionally based.
Provide troubleshooting support/assistance, informal training and mentoring to users.
Work with planning teams to identify, prioritize, implement and test model improvements that result from operational changes, capital projects, regulatory or other impacts.
Provide feedback to the vendor on the application. Interface with the vendor, when needed, on support, bug or enhancement items.
May support Discrete Event Simulation software.
May develop ML/AI models where adjacencies exist.
Job tasks/responsibilities are subject to change based on candidates’ experience and shifts in business drivers

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 mympcbenefits.com .
The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

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