Job Description

Saudi Aramco

Refinery Planning Economist

Job id: 593722

15 Sep 2025

Job Location

United Arab Emirates

Experience

8 to 15 years

Qualification Level

Engineering Graduates/PG; MBA / Management Post Graduates

Job Function

Quality / Testing
Researchers / Scientists

Skillset

Experience using LP models , economic principles and calculation methods

Preferred Jobseekers

Jobseekers from any country

Key Responsibilities
You will be required to perform the following:

Drive commercial optimization at the local LP runs at the individual refinery.
Responsible to generate crude relative values and crude ranking.
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 with ATC to reflect Saudi Aramco’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, ATC 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.

Minimum Requirements:

As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor degree in Engineering discipline, an MBA is preferable.

At least 8 years’ experience in refining business, to include technical and commercial aspects.
Experience using LP models is preferred.
Thorough knowledge of engineering practices, economic principles and calculation methods.
Expert in international business and cross-cultural professional practices.

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