Engineering Advisor (Economic Studies and Tools)

Job description

PORT ARTHUR-PORT ARTHUR REFINERY(TX-USA)
Job Description

·         Economic Tools Maintain and improve economic tools for performance control and business analysis. Work with RSTO to validate their offline margin models.

·         LP Back-cast: Perform a back-cast every month benchmarking the overall mass balance of the refinery and the unit level mass balance for LP accuracy identifying gaps and action for alignment. Define and follow up metrics of LP accuracy.

·         LP Retro-Optimization: Perform periodic retro optimization using the LP to help assess loss opportunity impacts and economic what-if for continued refinery optimization, in particular around Distillate and Gasoline Blending: work with the respective coordinator and performance control engineer to optimize blending operations

·         LP Economic Studies: Assist Projects, RSTO and Strategy with various economic studies or simulation of feeds and quality in the future (ex. Major Maintenance Outages)

·         Model Committee: Coordinate the model committee meeting working with the process engineers and MMO to update the process models and LP model to be ready for the LTP process. Facilitate with the process engineers the need for test-runs to update the unit models.

·         Refinery Databook: Build and maintain a database of refinery historic data such as mass balance key elements, losses, self-consumption, variable costs per unit, utilization, main economic analysis elements, asset description with main process and logistical constraints that should be modelized in the LP (official capacities of process units, utilities, tanks, docks, and pipelines information defining import/export capacities by pool). This document is the reference for any required statistics, feeding Performance Control reporting and basis for comparison to LP Back cast results.

·        Perform back up duties for the Business Analyst when unavailable.

Offer ID

32089BR
Country

USA
About us / company profile

Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with Total. With over 500-plus professions in 130 countries, we offer high safety and environmental standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and wide-ranging career development. Be part of the global team whose mission is already shared by 100,000 employees: to make energy better each and every day.

Candidate profile

·  Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering
·  3+ years engineering  experience preferably in refining
·  Interpersonal and effective communication skills, demonstrate autonomy and self-driven
·  Good problem solving skills
·  Work nights, weekends, and holidays during month-ends or other special circumstances

Métier

Downstream Processes
Job Title

Engineering Advisor (Economic Studies and Tools)
Branch

Refining & Chemicals
Functional discipline

Operations/Exploitation
Experience level required

3 - 6 years
Employment type

Regular position
Context and environment

Port Arthur refinery is a sophisticated merchant refinery with access to major crude/product pipelines and marine facilities, located on a very dynamic US Gulf Coast market with an extremely volatile economic environment and rapidly changing regulations. The Studies and Tools Engineer is to work with LP, PITAGOR, RADAR and Excel to help the Port Arthur Refinery take the right economic decisions towards better profitability.