Cross-Regional Planning & Optimization Engineer

Marathon Petroleum Corporation; Texas City (TX); On-site; USD 163,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is seeking a Cross-Regional Planning & Optimization Advisor/Engineer to align commercial strategy, operations, and markets across regions. You will drive economically optimized decisions using LP models and collaborate with logistics and commercial teams.

The role emphasizes integration of planning with execution, leadership in model development, and tight partnership across multiple refineries to capture value in the value chain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; five years of related experience may be considered with a relevant background.
• Four years of refinery planning, optimization, value chain analysis, operations, logistics, or related experience required.
• Aspen PIMS linear programming user background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads development of optimized regional and cross-regional production plans using LP models, balancing constraints, market conditions, and value opportunities.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in refinery planning and optimization across multiple refineries and value chain functions.
• Provides technical leadership for LP model development and optimization, challenging assumptions and ensuring models reflect business realities.
• Drives regional and cross-regional optimization strategies and aligns stakeholders to maximize value chain performance.
• Guides complex scenario analyses to support critical planning decisions and risk evaluation.
• Leads advanced performance assessments and backcast analyses to identify gaps and drive improvement.
• Collaborates across Operations, Commercial, Logistics, and Planning to align assumptions and recommendations.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Partnership Building

Business Acumen

Data Analysis

Decision Support Analytics

Influencing Others

Integrated Planning & Optimization

Metrics Management

Optimization Modeling

Scenario Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Systems Thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

4 years refinery planning/optimization experience

Aspen PIMS LP modeling background

Tools

Aspen PIMS

Job description

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is seeking a Cross-Regional Planning & Optimization Advisor/Engineer to align commercial strategy, operations, and markets across regions. You will drive economically optimized decisions using LP models and collaborate with logistics and commercial teams.

The role emphasizes integration of planning with execution, leadership in model development, and tight partnership across multiple refineries to capture value in the value chain.