Senior Planning & Optimization Advisor/Engineer – NG & NGLs
About The Position
The Senior Planning & Optimization Advisor/Engineer develops and operationalizes integrated planning and optimization processes, decision-support models, and tools, embedding data-driven decision-making into business processes and workflows across the value chain. The role connects Commercial, Trading, Operations, Transportation and Logistics, and Digital/IT to build integrated, optimized plans and translate strategy into actionable business decisions that create measurable and traceable organizational value. The position coordinates the development and implementation of planning and optimization capabilities, including decision-support models, tools, workflows, and business processes. Work includes defining business requirements and data inputs, evaluating scenarios, validating model outputs, translating recommendations into aligned commercial and operational plans, monitoring performance against plan, and supporting stakeholder adoption through cross-functional collaboration. The posting covers multiple positions with different areas of focus: Northeast NG and NGL assets, including ethane recovery versus rejection; West Texas NG and NGL assets and the Texas City Natural Gas Liquids Complex; or butane supply, transportation, storage, distribution, and inventory management across the network. Locations listed are Denver, Houston, Findlay, San Antonio, and Canonsburg. Travel is estimated at 10–15%.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
- A Bachelor's degree in another field may be considered with five years of experience in economics planning, optimization, value chain, operations, commercial, logistics, or related technical experience.
- Four years of refinery or NG/NGL planning, optimization, value-chain analysis, operations, commercial, logistics, or related experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement standardized planning and optimization business processes for the NG/NGL system, including workflows, decision rights, and stakeholder ownership.
- Coordinate optimization model development, business requirements, constraint validation, implementation workflows, and adoption across Commercial, Scheduling, Operations, Logistics, and Digital/IT.
- Develop and optimize short-, mid-, and lookback plans using local, regional, and cross-regional models to maximize NG/NGL value-chain performance.
- Manage NG/NGL forecasting and planning activities independently, aligning plans with operational capabilities, producer and customer contracts, market conditions, and business objectives.
- Maintain and enhance planning and optimization models by validating assumptions, updating constraints, improving data quality, and increasing model accuracy to reflect operating realities.
- Identify emerging constraints and value opportunities and develop optimization strategies to improve recovery decisions, asset utilization, product routing, and overall value-chain performance.
- Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate changing market conditions, operational constraints, disruptions, producer nominations, and strategic initiatives.
- Use historical performance reviews, backcast analyses, and scenario evaluations to improve forecasting accuracy, planning effectiveness, and continuous improvement of business decisions.
- Partner with Operations, Commercial, Trading, Scheduling, Logistics, Planning, Engineering, and Digital/IT to align plans across assets and planning horizons and support execution of operating strategies.
- Provide technical guidance to less experienced advisors.
- For the Northeast focus, advance the ethane recovery versus rejection initiative and develop integrated planning and optimization capabilities for regional commercial and operational decisions.
- For the South focus, develop planning and optimization capabilities for West Texas NG/NGL assets and the Texas City Natural Gas Liquids Complex.
- For the Butane Blending focus, integrate butane supply, transportation, storage, distribution, and inventory management while balancing commercial value with operational feasibility.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
- 401(k) matching program
- Paid parental leave
- Educational reimbursement
- Eligibility for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program
- Relocation assistance may be available depending on the candidate’s current location and position requirements
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
