Asst. Professor - Economics jobs in Utah

The Lead Economics and Planning Engineer will help with planning and optimizing of the refinery to maximize refinery throughputs and profits.

• Responsible for short term planning and refinery optimization to maximize refinery throughputs and profits:
  • Develop reports for Monday commercial meeting
  • Develop any additional material as needed for the Monday commercial meeting
  • Develop two-week operating plan and communicate targets in a weekly planning meeting with supervisors and unit engineers
  • Identify daily issues and deviations from targets so timely adjustments can be made
  • Optimize refinery operation during unit shutdown, planned outages, TA’s, tank outages, etc.
• Responsible for refinery LP evaluation and analysis:
  • LP analysis to evaluate crude input, unit rates, and specification targets to maximize refinery throughput, profits, gasoline blending, and diesel production.
  • Work with commercial on crude oil volume plan including new crude economics analysis
  • Develop monthly crude plan with commercial group to maximize refinery profitability, perform LP back casting study to determine deviations from predicted income forecast with actual
  • Responsible to keep LP accurate and up-to-date by working with Unit Engineers and 3rd party LP programing contractor
• Responsible for gasoline blend planning:
  • Develop monthly blend plan evaluation to set ratable commercial targets for SLC rack sales including hold vs sell strategies, natural gasoline targets, and butane blending targets
  • Develop two week blend plan (Monday and Thursday) and communicate any deviation from the monthly blend plan to the commercial team
  • Develop daily blend plan and recipes for the Shift Forman to meet all regulatory requirements and to maximize refinery gasoline volumes using current lab data including maximizing natural gasoline and butane blending
• Develop monthly lost opportunity reports (LPO) and keep LPO tracking worksheet up to date
• Keep refinery rate tracking excel file up-to-date providing daily notes on issues resulting in missed targets, rate reductions, shutdowns, etc.
• Develop the refinery monitoring report to be given at the monthly unit engineering optimization meetings
• Responsible for development of the 5 year barrel plan for the yearly budget approval process
• Assist Commercial and Operations with logistics issues around natural gasoline and LPG rail car / trucking to ensure target volumes are achieved
• Troubleshoot as needed the accounting production report / yield accounting issues
• Develop economic analysis as needed for engineering, commercial, or operations
• Responsible for Daily Monitoring Report being accurate and distributed correctly
• Responsible for the PI process book screens under “Optimization Planning” being up to date and accurate

Qualifications: education and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering or related technical field preferred
• 15 years’ experience in a refinery environment preferred. 10 years’ experience required.

About Big West Oil LLC.:

Owned and operated by FJ Management, Big West Oil believes employees are the foundation of success. The facility currently employs about 250 people, with an average employee tenure of 11 years, employees at Big West Oil LLC pride themselves on building value to last. Big West Oil is 1 of 5 Utah refineries, that produce gasoline, diesel, and other chemicals. We pride ourselves in being stewards for the industry in environmental compliance, and our passion for building a family-oriented culture supporting employee fulfillment and career longevity.

Salary

Commensurate with experience

Position Benefits:

• Great yearly bonus program
• Retirement programs – 401k and profit sharing with potential for 19% from the Company
• Competitive Health Insurance- Medical, dental, Vision
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Insurance
• 9/80 work schedule