Planning & Optimization Engineer III/Senior Planning & Optimization Engineer

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Findlay, OH

10h

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 Value Chain Optimization (VCO) is seeking a motivated and dynamic Planning & Optimization Engineer. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in regional and refinery backcasting, regional and refinery optimization, and LP submodel maintenance. The candidate must possess strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with LP models (PIMS), as well as Refining and Midstream operations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Enables and improves the commercial decision-making processes across regional refinery operations (feedstock selection, product/intermediate placement, supply chain optimization, market analysis) by driving standard work, governance, tool adoption, and cross-functional alignment without owning the daily planning decisions or plan outputs.
• Manages the commercial aspects of regional refinery operations, including feedstock selection, product and intermediate placement, supply chain optimization, and market analysis.
• Collaborate with local and regional value chain teams to align on economic drivers and ensure that planning decisions support enterprise-wide optimization.
• Leads collaboration meetings within the value chain to discuss both local and regional economic drivers.
• Verifies refinery production plans using linear programming (LP) models; Understand differences in plan were due to margin shifts, demand changes, or operational constraints.
• Communicates any changes needed to forecast tools or processes to capture value.
• Leads end-to-end evaluation of actual buy-or-make cases, by evaluating actual costs, quality, supply logistics, and market conditions.
• Develops sophisticated economic models and sensitivity analyses to assess risk and uncertainty.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to align strategies with actual outcomes.
• Leads the development and execution of backcast models, 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 operational teams to implement corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assists in developing/verifying decision-making frameworks and communicates findings and recommendations to key stakeholders through clear and concise presentations.
• Integrates into the local refinery planning team and learn the tools and processes for completing deliverables and scheduling, including APS.
• Contribute to the validation of production plans with support from team members and lead any gap closures.

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.

What This Job Offers

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