Planning & Economics Engineering Manager

JOB SUMMARY

This position is for a dynamic individual to take on a pivotal role in enhancing the profitability of Delek's Big Spring Refinery. As a crucial member of our team, you'll drive refining optimization, ensuring the efficient selection of feedstocks, product placement, and detailed planning and scheduling of refinery operations. The primary focus will be on devising monthly and weekly operating plans and defining operational targets to maximize product value as well as overseeing refinery budgets and contributing to capital project evaluations and business development opportunities. Additionally, you'll be the team lead for refinery planning and economics, fostering collaboration with our corporate optimization team, schedulers, and traders to achieve our collective goals.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 4 year / Bachelor's Degree (Required)


• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.


• Two (2) or more years Management experience (Required)


• Eight (8) or more years Process engineering, planning related experience in refining industry (Required)


• No Licensure or Certification Required.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Planning & Economics


• Planning/Scheduling


• Product Blending


• Refining Processes


• Performance Metrics


• Reporting


• Operating Problems


• Issue Management


• Relationship Management


• Consulting


• Supervises onsite Planning Engineering staff


• Generates data to corporate for opportunity and giveaway reports


• Identifies process constraints and identifies opportunities to relieve these constraints


• Develops and maintains key performance metrics that track refinery attainment of planned operational targets and optimal margin capture


• Works with operations and Technical Services to analyze opportunities to enhance refinery profitability


• Manages and analyzes deviations from monthly operating plan


• Evaluates potential feedstock opportunities


• Acts as liaison between refinery and corporate planning and economic group


• Evaluates the economic feasibility of projects assigned and assists with the economic evaluation of projects


• Implements monthly operating plan and operating strategies, reviews plant operations and laboratory analyses on a daily basis for better efficiency and compliance with operating plans


• Tracks and analyzes deviations from operating plans both daily and monthly


• While this job description aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the role, it may not detail every task or responsibility required.

CORE COMPETENCIES

CHANGE AGILITY (LEVEL 3 APPLYING):

Identifies, initiates, and adapts to organizational changes that foster enhanced effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and ultimately business results.

COLLABORATION (LEVEL 3 APPLYING):

Sees connection points across the organization and partners effectively with others to achieve common goals.

DECISION MAKING (LEVEL 3 APPLYING):

Selects a course of action to reduce risk and uncertainty and create optimal outcomes.

DRIVE FOR RESULTS (LEVEL 3 APPLYING):

Drives to achieve challenging performance objectives.

TEAM BUILDING (LEVEL 3 APPLYING):

Builds trust, fosters openness, and provides support. As the manager of a team, selects and motivates a strong team.

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