HIRING SAUDI NATIONAL FOR SAUDI ARABIA
Job Title:
Refinery Planning Engineer
Experience Years:
10
Desired Nationality (Saudi, Eastern or Western)
Eastern
Grade Code
13
Brief Role Description:
The candidate will work in the Manufacturing Planning & Economics Unit (MPEU) under the Planning and
Hydrocarbon Accounting Group.
Minimum Requirements (e.g. previous experiences and specific skill
requirement in addition to any Education requirement)
The candidate shall have previous experience in refineries and worked in production planning and
coordination. In addition, the candidate shall be capable of performing refinery material balance, mass
balance and data validation and reconciliation (DVR).
The candidate shall have a Chemical Engineering degree.
Duties and Responsibilities:- Expected responsibilities and % of time spent
on each one
1. Responsible for developing weekly operating targets in line with final short range operating
plan production targets.
2. Attend meeting with all concerned Unit Heads/Business Unit Leaders both in operation and
Tank Farm/Off-site to discuss the production plan targets. Make necessary update in the
production targets as and when necessary based on the discussion in the meeting.
3. Give necessary feedback/discuss with the Planning Engineer/Process Engineer of the
concerned area and seek their essential assistance for eliminating operational constraints
as and when raised.
4. Ensure that operating targets are set within the sustainable capacity constraints.
5. Responsible for ensuring that the unit products to the tanks are within the specified limits
and readjust the operating targets if any safety concern is raised.
6. Monitors the production rates and quality on daily basis and coordinate with the concerned
for necessary corrective actions. Ensure that there are no quality giveaway utilizing all the
available tools.
7. Responsible to assure proper feed stock availability to the Operating units. Issue inventory
Saudi Aramco:- Company General Use
projection as and when necessary. Responsible for building/depletion of the inventory as
and when applicable.
8. Review and coordinate with OSPAS Oil Planners for Crude Oil quality and quantity.
Communicate/Prepare strategic plan for safe handling during and after ASL batching.
9. Provides planning and decision support for Management in a variety of routine and non-
routine areas, including new opportunities, special requests, and recovery from upsets (unit
operations, product blending and inventory control), shutdowns and start-ups.
10. Review draft SROP and prepare comments to be discussed in the review SROP call. Attend
SROP meeting (usually through video conference call) as and when required.
11. Generate monthly refinery material balance reports.
12. Responsible to collect necessary information from different sources for all saleable
products and incoming streams like MTBE, Crude Oil, Sales Gas etc.
13. Issue monthly reconciled material balance and progress reports to OAD, OSPAS and others
within the specified time frame utilizing customized software applications supporting data
handling and analysis tools.
14. Responsible for developing daily mass balance preparation utilizing VALI DVR model.
15. Highlights any measurement discrepancies as and when noted for necessary corrections for
better quality material balance reconciliation.
16. Prepare weekly highlights for Management information.
17. Prepare and update midyear and year end accountability reports.
18. Responsible for Refinery performance analysis including all MIS KPI’s, levels of operation
with variance analysis wherever applicable.
Unit Function (Role & Responsibilities)
The core function of the Manufacturing Planning & Economics Unit (MPEU) is to coordinate refinery
operations in the most optimum way to meet its commitment to the Corporate effectively and ensure
continuous availability of on-spec products to its various customers.
Justification
MPEU is currently having two Engineers only. This workforce is handling all the MPEU functions related
to production planning and hydrocarbon accounting with extensive load of new deliverables which
require dedicated manpower for handling IMOMS and royalty/custody measurement systems.
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