Economics and Planning Analyst/Sr Analyst
Responsible for optimal gasoline blending, project economics, and lost profit opportunity analysis.
Principle Responsibilities
Gasoline Blending
- Responsible for developing/producing optimal blend schedules and recipes for gasoline product blending.
- Uses, maintains and advances gasoline LP model for use in planning, economic evaluations and predictive calculations.
- Responsible for projecting/updating gasoline production rates/inventories to meet pipeline schedules.
- Coordinates changing plant production with Operations, Technical, Commercial and Logistics.
- Interface effectively with Operations, Commercial, Technical, and Logistics and develops new tools to meet future information demands.
- Provides refinery personnel with up-to-date pricing and information on strategic direction for gasoline blending.
- Evaluate and select refinery operating modes that impact gasoline blending.
- Reviews refinery performance to improve predictive capabilities, identify operating problems, and provide the basis for future actions for gasoline blending.
- Address gasoline quality variances.
- Works as part of team in preparation of short and long range oil flow plans determining the economic and oil flow impact for both refinery and Commercial in various scenarios.
- Provide data for fulfilling Refinery Compliance reporting for finished fuels on a quarterly and annual basis.
- Participate in the PBF Gasoline Blending Best Practice team on developing new tools and improving existing tools.
Lost profit opportunities
- Calculate oil flow impact of lost profit opportunities.
Provide back fill
- Economics and Planning Economist
- Crude/Product Planner
Hedge
- Provide daily clean fuel rates and intermediate build/draw projection.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering preferably in Chemical Engineering discipline.
- 2+ years’ refinery experience.
- Basic refinery knowledge – understanding overall refinery flow and key interactions between units.
- Systems – PC knowledge, PI Data Acquisition system.
- Gasoline Blending experience preferred.
- Intuitive with numbers/data - able to manipulate & apply to business.
- Ability to multitask.
- Ability to adjust to changing priorities.