Job Description

Job Title: Asset Economist – Refinery Planning Economist

Location: Middle East

Type of Role: Direct Hire

PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION REQUIRES PERMANENT RELOCATION TO THE MIDDLE EAST

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Global Edge is an award-winning recruitment agency connecting projects worldwide with the industry’s most talented project professionals. Our team is currently looking for an Asset Economist -Refinery Planning Economist. The Asset Economist works with refineries and the Global Optimizer team to optimize refinery’s crude allocation, crude mix, and products slates. With expertise in refinery operations, market dynamics, commercial capabilities, and linear programming modelling, will produce a sound plan to help ensure the highest returns of downstream assets; and is also accountable to develop, monitor and execute the monthly short operating plan.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

· Drive commercial optimization at the local LP runs at the individual refinery.

· Responsible to generate crude relative values and crude ranking.

· Provide both market and refinery operations outlook for yearly business plan.

· Provide monthly major constraints impact on asset for logistic unit performance and investment requirements needed.

· Review and challenge constraints to the individual LPs of each refinery (potentially run limited constraint model to create the baseline for ideal LP output).

· Coordinate to reflect the company’s market perspective on the individual Refinery LPs.

· Create sensitivities, trade-offs, and scenarios for each of the individual LPs.

· Work with other asset economists within the same region to consolidate the LPs of refineries within the same region and explore optimization opportunities.

· Defend refinery interest during trade-off evaluations (after the central optimization team issues LP differentials) while keeping integrated optimization objective in mind.

· Provide both market and refinery operations outlook for yearly business plan.

· Coordinate with the refineries and the central Optimization team (and potentially other stakeholders) to execute short-term (within the production month) optimization opportunities.

· Identify, assess, and review strategic and commercial viability of potential identified investment opportunities to improve overall viability of the system.

QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS)

· B.S. degree in Engineering discipline, an MBA is preferable.

· At least eight years’ experience in refining business, to include technical and commercial aspects.

· Experience using LP models is required

· Thorough knowledge of engineering practices, economic principles, and calculation methods.

· Expert in international business and cross-cultural professional practices.

· Fundamental of Engineers (FE) Preferred

The Global Edge Consultants, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Global Edge Consultants, LLC does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business.