Role Responsibilities for Refinery Planner:
- Prepare the monthly Refinery Operating Plan using the Refinery Linear Program.
- Coordinate the preparation of a plan with the Asset Traders to ensure profitable opportunities are captured.
- Issue the plan to refinery and ensure that the plan's aims and objectives are fully understood.
- Use the LP to generate daily or weekly operational economics as a guide to plant optimisation and trading decisions.
- Assist Commercial Operations to follow the plan objectives.
- Track operational performance and provide variance analysis and explanation of ongoing issues.
- Retrospective analysis of Refinery Planning, Commercial and Refinery Performance.
- Analysis of Benchmarking studies.
- Participate in LP and other tools improvement projects.
- Prepare ad-hoc analysis of investment plans for Refineries and monitor Refineries capital spending.
- Prepare the Refinery Quarterly, Yearly and Strategic Budget Plans.
Individual Attributes for Refinery Planner:
- A minimum of 4 years in refining (operations, supply chain, performance control), including 2 years as Planning Specialist or similar role.
- Excellent knowledge in refining process.
- Good knowledge in Economic Main Fundamentals.
- Good understanding and use of linear programming (RPMS, PIMS, Haverly, Spiral) would be a real asset.
- Extensive knowledge of refinery economics including use of refinery LP software.
- Excellent Excel, DB (SQL) skills. Knowledge of Python and Tableau are assets.
- English language fluency is essential. Italian, French, German and Russian would be advantageous.
