Refinery Planning & Optimization Lead

4500 Marathon Petroleum Company LP; Findlay (OH); On-site; USD 123,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Company LP in Findlay, OH is seeking a Planning & Optimization Advisor/Engineer to support regional and refinery planning. The role emphasizes backcasting, optimization modeling, and LP submodel development with cross-functional collaboration to improve performance across the value chain.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, a passion for optimization, and the ability to translate data into actionable planning decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required.
• Five years of experience in refinery planning, optimization, or value chain related roles is required or five years with alternate degree.
• Four or more years in refinery planning, optimization, value chain analysis, operations, or logistics is required.

Responsibilities

• Develops and optimizes short-, mid-, and lookback plans using LP models to maximize refinery and value chain performance.
• Manages refinery forecasting and planning activities ensuring alignment with capabilities and market conditions.
• Maintains and enhances LP models by validating assumptions and adjusting constraints.
• Identifies constraints and opportunities and develops optimization strategies.
• Performs scenario and sensitivity analyses to assess market and operational changes.
• Integrates historical performance, backcasts, and scenarios to improve forecast accuracy.
• Partners with Operations, Commercial, Logistics, and Planning teams to align across horizons and regions.
• Leads planning studies and provides guidance to less experienced advisors.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Building Partnerships

Business Acumen

Business Domain Knowledge

Commodity Market Analysis

Continuous Improvement

Data Analysis

Decision Support Analytics

Influencing Others

Integrated Planning & Planning

Metrics Management

Optimization Modeling

Scenario Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Systems Thinking

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering

Job description

Marathon Petroleum Company LP in Findlay, OH is seeking a Planning & Optimization Advisor/Engineer to support regional and refinery planning. The role emphasizes backcasting, optimization modeling, and LP submodel development with cross-functional collaboration to improve performance across the value chain.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, a passion for optimization, and the ability to translate data into actionable planning decisions.