Production Planning Analyst

1. Perform the day-to-day work in order to increase refinery profit, enhance plant reliability/integrity, and promote safety & compliance to environmental standards.

2. Organize with Operations and Economic Optimization Group to ensure that optimization tool(s) reflect the actual process parameters such as maximum sustained capacity of each refinery process unit.

3. Confirm the short & long term customer demands and discuss/update product pricing.

4. Participate in preparing the refinery short, medium, and long term production plans and offerings based on design capacity to demand.

5. Compare actual production rates with production targets on daily basis and develop/adjust blend recipes using latest optimization software (and other available tools).

6. Manage and discuss the daily and weekly products lifting schedule.

7. Approve the laboratory results on daily basis and discuss any deviations from specifications.

8. Communicate and coordinate the required production adjustment with involved parties (Operations, Engineering and Marketing).

9. Discuss the monthly giveaway report including recommendations to minimize or eliminate future giveaways.

10. Liaise with Off-takers regarding lifting nominations, lifting schedules and inventory control/allocation.

11. Review with shareholders on short term (daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly) production plans.

12. Communicate production scheduling activities such as (Off-takers, quantity, etc.) directly with shareholders.

13. Lead the analyzing relevant monthly, middle year and year end KPIs and propose improvement actions/suggestions to enhance the refinery margin.

14. Lead the evaluating the financial impact of scheduled and unscheduled shutdowns and operations abnormalities on the refinery margin.

15. Maintain correspondence and record files for economics & planning, in particular those pertaining to shipping and Off-taker communications.

16. Provide the necessary support to the respective OME team member before/after daily meetings to ensure high level of safety performance and comply with health, safety and environmental standards.

17. Perform other job-related duties as assigned by the direct supervisor.