Refinery Economics & Scheduling Engineer – Optimize Margins

Marathon Petroleum; Catlettsburg (KY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Paid time off

401k matching

Paid parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum is seeking a Value Chain Optimization professional to drive LP-based economic plans and optimize refinery performance at Catlettsburg, KY. You will collaborate with Commercial Scheduling, Planning & Optimization, and Refinery Products Control to advance optimization opportunities.

Ideal candidates will communicate effectively, learn refinery economics, and contribute to mid-term turnaround integration and day-to-day execution with various teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
• Two years of refinery operations, planning, optimization, scheduling, value chain analysis, or related experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops and runs LP-based economic plans for assigned refinery or system scope to evaluate crude selection, unit operating modes, blending, and product placement decisions.
• Analyses refinery-level operating economics, market inputs, and constraints to identify margin opportunities, trade-offs, and economic sensitivities.
• Translates short-term economic model outputs into executable refinery operating plans and targets, working directly with scheduling, operations, supply, and Commercial teams to align economic intent with operating constraints and day-to-day execution realities.
• Provides technical direction for refinery economic models and planning assumptions, ensuring constraints and yields reflect current operating capability.
• Communicates refinery forward operating assumptions to planners, schedulers, and leadership to support informed forecasting decisions with minimal oversight.
• Integrates mid-term turnaround plans into prompt economic and operating plans, incorporating turnaround scope, unit constraints, and production objectives into sequence of events and day-to-day refinery execution plans.
• Has ability to cover at least one other desk.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Building Partnerships

Business Acumen

Data Analysis

Decision Support Analytics

Forecast Analysis

Integrated Planning & Optimization

Optimization Modeling

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Operational Planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

None

Job description

Marathon Petroleum is seeking a Value Chain Optimization professional to drive LP-based economic plans and optimize refinery performance at Catlettsburg, KY. You will collaborate with Commercial Scheduling, Planning & Optimization, and Refinery Products Control to advance optimization opportunities.

Ideal candidates will communicate effectively, learn refinery economics, and contribute to mid-term turnaround integration and day-to-day execution with various teams.