Senior Business Planner: Capital Projects & Strategy

Exxon Mobil; Beaumont (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Plan

Savings Plan

Workplace Flexibility

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vie

Wellbeing resources

Disability Plan

Job summary

ExxonMobil seeks a Senior Business Planner to join our gulf coast manufacturing locations, notably Baton Rouge. You will support the Site’s Capital Project portfolio, lead economic evaluations, and mentor junior engineers while prioritizing capital investments across operations.

Ideal candidates bring 10–15 years in capital project development, a Chemical Engineering background, and proven ability to collaborate across teams to optimize safety, reliability and cost effectiveness.

Qualifications

• B.S. Chemical Engineering or equivalent.
• 10-15 years of direct capital project development experience supporting a Manufacturing Site.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and problem solving ability.

Responsibilities

• Assess opportunities consistent with business strategies, plans and needs that might support a project.
• Lead the identification of potential business options that would address the opportunity or need; make preliminary competitive assessments.
• Coordinate development of scoping cost & schedule estimate, working with other organizations as appropriate.
• Ensure base case optimization, and then develop economics & business case including the potential impact of appropriate market and other material sensitivities on project viability.
• Lead and/or perform process optimization studies to identify or evaluate capital or operational cost savings, process configuration alternatives, safety facilities requirements, etc.
• Lead / facilitate / support Project Gates and coordinate development and approval of any Gate Forms and/or Appropriation Requests.
• Provide facility engineering input and output requirement to ensure adequate definition to meet safety, reliability, and operability requirements.
• Develop Project Objectives & Strategies and ensure adequate documentation, communication & adherence throughout project development.
• Ensure progression of capital project portfolio is consistent with project schedule and level of technical definition appropriate with both the stage of the project and the Project Objective & Strategies.
• Engage with assigned Business Teams and GBUs (as needed) to understand Site/Business Team priorities and align on capital project prioritization within assigned Site.
• Participate in activities, both informal and formal (e.g. technology days, strategic planning studies), to identify potential project opportunities.

Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering or equivalent

Job description

ExxonMobil seeks a Senior Business Planner to join our gulf coast manufacturing locations, notably Baton Rouge. You will support the Site’s Capital Project portfolio, lead economic evaluations, and mentor junior engineers while prioritizing capital investments across operations.

Ideal candidates bring 10–15 years in capital project development, a Chemical Engineering background, and proven ability to collaborate across teams to optimize safety, reliability and cost effectiveness.