Refinery Economist

Full Job Description

Refinery Economist

Location: Weybridge, Surrey

The role is within our Integrated Supply and Optimisation department under the Planning and Optimisation team and reports directly to the Planning and Optimisation Manager.

The refinery economist works with the refineries, the commercial team, and integrated supply team to optimise the profitability of the business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive commercial optimization for Refinery for the different planning month cycles.
• Responsible to generate crude relative values and crude ranking for supply the refinery as well as driving crude diversification for the site.
• Develop the monthly plans in coordination with the commercial teams, refinery teams.
• Provide Refinery operations outlook for yearly business plan.
• Provide monthly major constraints impact on asset for logistic unit performance and investment requirements needed.
• Identifies issues with LP model and Validate the LP model with the LP modeller.
• Manage medium term outlook for the refinery optimisation and constraint management such as catalyst changes.
• Create sensitivities, trade-offs and scenarios for the refinery.
• Evaluate commercial evaluation for feedstocks/products supply in close cooperation with the integrated supply optimisation as well as the commercial team.
• Identify, assess, review strategic and commercial opportunities for the refinery to increase the profitability.

Education & Experience Requirements

• At least eight years’ experience in refining business, to include technical and commercial aspects.
• Thorough knowledge of engineering practices, economic principles, and calculation methods.
• Demonstrate excellent business acumen with knowledge of linear programme models and Refinery economics.
• Self-starter who can problem solve with an analytical approach.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to optimise and improve profitability of our refining operations.
• Experience in Joint Venture refineries economics and apportionment process is desired.
• Proficiency in office automation tools
• Detail and result oriented, you are able to prioritize tasks effectively; meet critical deadlines and work precisely under pressure.
• You have good communication and interpersonal skills.
• You are demonstrably commercial and have incisive and accurate judgement.
• Advance skill level in MS Excel