Hindsight Economist

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ExxonMobil in Malaysia

ExxonMobil is one of the world's largest publicly traded energy providers and chemical manufacturers, ExxonMobil develops and applies next-generation technologies to help safely and responsibly meet the world's growing needs for energy and high-quality chemical products.

In Malaysia, we are involved in significant oil and gas production operations and the marketing of chemical products. We also host a global business and technology center in Kuala Lumpur that provides high-level information technology and engineering expertise to ExxonMobil’s upstream, downstream and chemical businesses worldwide.

What role you will play in our team

• Part of a centralized team which will execute Overall (Production Planning) Model Validation (OMV) and (Production Performance) Lookback (LB) of a specific/integrated manufacturing site.
• Responsible for ensuring site operations are reflected well on a LP case setup; highlighting on table opportunities; suggesting path forward where applicable by closely collaborating and interfacing with site economists, coordinators and Model Improve Engineers.
• Coaching other team members and sharing your experience on work process improvements.
• This position is not limited to Malaysians only.

What you will do

We are looking for experienced individuals who will:

• Execute the monthly backcasting /lookback process, to analyze, identify opportunities and present them to the sites in order to drive improvement in molecule management and profitability.
• Make tool improvements e.g. configuration/tag changes, planning case set up improvements, model biasing, etc.
• Work closely with Site Economists to understand the opportunities identified by the lookback analysis and execute the follow ups.
• Work closely with Modeling & Optimization engineers to understand the potential gaps in planning model, investigate further and make necessary adjustments to the model.
• Perform Clean Case analysis based on historical best performance and suggest improvements and path forward by collaborating with site economists
• Perform Crude look back and highlight opportunities to optimize feedrate/slate to refineries & Chemical Plants
• Understand process improvement opportunities from Refinery- Chemicals integrations and highlight circuit level opportunities.
• Focus on delivering value for our sites within a supportive and collaborative environment
• Leverage data & analytics platform to improve work process; enhance analysis and influence business for better value capture.
• Hindsight/lookback process is intended to replace existing site lookback processes and complement current model validation work processes.

About you

Skills and Qualifications

• Possess a Bachelor's Degree / MSc. / MEng in Chemical Engineering.
• More than 5 years of experience working at a Refinery/Petrochemical manufacturing site, involving production planning, optimization and scheduling.
• Experienced with planning tools (e.g. Linear Programming models) and manufacturing economics knowledge.
• Prior experience in backcasting, look back process will be an added advantage
• Looking for passionate individuals with good Process Information Management System (PIMS) knowledge; inquiry-based mindset to understand site optimization and influencing ability who enjoy working in dynamic, collaborative, and diverse global teams.
• Be able to demonstrate the following:
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external teams
  • Ability to work in a multi-cultural global team
  • Inquiry based mindset to understand and extract key messages to drive opportunities and path forward
  • Strong influencing ability

Your Benefits:

We are committed to providing benefits that are competitive and support the needs of our employees.

Application Process

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