Job Description

Our award-winning client is seeking an Economics and Planning Senior Economist to join their team.As an Economics and Planning Senior Economist, you'll play a crucial role in optimizing refinery operations by providing economic insights and analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Monthly Operating Plan: Generate a three-month operating plan with dollarized charge and yield, opex and capex estimates, and upload the approved plan to the data warehouse.

• Budget Run Plan: Generate a feasible and optimized budget run plan for the following year, considering crude grade availability, pipeline allocations, product demand, and refinery availability.

• Day-to-Day Optimization: Advise on refinery optimization, considering prompt economics, actual inventories, and current refinery performance.

• Charge and Yield Tracking: Track actual month-to-date charge and yield, reforecast balance of month charge and yield, and re-project current month charge and yield.

• Clean Product and Butane Runout Files: Update files with latest charge and yield estimates.

• Crude Refining Values: Calculate weekly crude refining values and provide a crude screening report to the commercial crude team.

• Refinery Yields and TRC LP Model: Monitor refinery yields and modify the TRC refinery LP model to maintain accuracy.

• Crude Retain Sampling and PBF Crude Quality Monitoring: Coordinate crude retain sampling and participate in the PBF Crude Quality Monitoring process. Maintain the crude assay table for LP.

• Hydrogen, RFG, and ROG Sales: Provide monthly projected purchases and sales rates to Linde.

• Monthly Operating Plan Presentation: Present the monthly operating plan to refinery staff, commercial traders, and the executive team.

• Commercial Communication: Communicate operational and product slate flexibility to commercial traders to leverage spot market opportunities.

• Capital Project Economic Justification: Work with Process Engineering on capital project economic justification using LP and other tools.

• Catalyst Selection Economics: Collaborate with Process Engineering on catalyst selection economics.

• Risk Group Integrated Procedures: Maintain and adjust Risk Group integrated procedures.

• Technical Service Collaboration: Provide economics and guidance in twice/week meetings with Technical Service on refinery optimization.

• New Crude Screening and Evaluation: Participate in the screening and evaluation of new crudes for TRC.

• Equipment Outage Cost Estimation: Estimate the cost of equipment outages to help the refinery optimize maintenance timing and scope.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering required.

• 10 years of refinery experience reqouired.

• 2 years f LP modeling experience required.

• 2 years of economic experience preferred.

• Strong numerical and data manipulation skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft programs.

• US Citizens or US Green Card holders only.