Value Chain Planning & Optimization Engineer

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

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Company LP seeks a Planning & Optimization Advisor/Engineer to support regional and refinery planning and optimization. You will contribute to backcasting, optimization modeling, and LP submodel development, translating analytics into actionable plans.

You will work across Operations, Commercial, Logistics, and Planning teams, handling complex constraints and data-driven decision making to maximize refinery and value chain performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
• Four years of refinery planning/optimization experience required.
• Strong analytical and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develops and optimizes short-term, mid-term, and lookback plans using LP models.
• Manages refinery forecasting and planning activities aligned with operations and market conditions.
• Maintains and enhances LP models and improves accuracy.
• Identifies constraints and develops optimization strategies to improve performance.
• Performs scenario and sensitivity analyses for market and operational changes.
• Integrates performance reviews and backcast analyses to improve forecasting.
• Collaborates with Operations, Commercial, Logistics, and Planning teams to align plans.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Building Partnerships

Business Acumen

Data Analysis

Decision Support Analytics

Integrated Planning & Optimization

Scenario Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Systems Thinking

Optimization Modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Marathon Petroleum Company LP seeks a Planning & Optimization Advisor/Engineer to support regional and refinery planning and optimization. You will contribute to backcasting, optimization modeling, and LP submodel development, translating analytics into actionable plans.

You will work across Operations, Commercial, Logistics, and Planning teams, handling complex constraints and data-driven decision making to maximize refinery and value chain performance.