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Position Summary

Do you have a strong technical background Do you like building tools and data pipelines that power complex business decisions Marathon Petroleum Company LP (MPC) has an opening within the Value Chain Optimization organization on the Value Chain Insights team. Our mission is to power confident decisions across the value chain building the trusted tools and data foundations that drive enterprise optimization and delivering the cutting-edge analytics and insights that increase trust and confidence in our reporting and reducing barriers to timely actionable insight.

This role sits in the Model Interpretation vertical and is an individual contributor responsible for designing building and supporting enterprise optimization model case input tools that support Marathons routine planning and optimization models across the value chain. Case input tools are applications that assemble validate and format the data required to run Marathons Aspen PIMS and Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain Planner (PSCP) models for the full planning cycle post-audits and enterprise-wide optimization. This role requires expert-level Excel VBA development strong SQL and data-pipeline skills and a disciplined approach to building standardized robust low-maintenance solutions. Success depends on the ability to turn inconsistent or manual case-build processes into reliable repeatable tooling; to partner closely with regional planning teams; and to bring engineering rigor creative problem-solving and attention to detail to every deliverable. This position has exposure and impact on other workstreams within the Model Interpretation team that include AI-assisted analytics and business intelligence platforms.

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility competency and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidates experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrates advanced expertise in enterprise optimization models and translates complex model structures assumptions and outputs into practical business guidance and scalable solutions.
• Designs and delivers model-related capabilities including analysis tools standardized model components documentation and AI-assisted solutions that improve consistency understanding and adoption.
• Independently analyzes model performance sensitivities assumptions and exceptions across multiple assets planning horizons or functional areas resolving complex and ambiguous issues.
• Partners with modeling planning scheduling and platform teams to validate assumptions constraints configurations and outputs against operational realities while supporting model deployment change events and governance activities.
• Leads development harmonization and sustainment of model standards methodologies definitions and supporting capabilities to improve consistency comparability and scalability across the enterprise.
• Establishes and maintains documentation training materials and support processes that enable consistent adoption and sustained capability utilization.
• Serves as a trusted advisor between modeling teams business users and governance stakeholders creating feedback mechanisms that continuously improve model quality usability and business value.
• Leads projects and improvement initiatives with moderate complexity and resource requirements while mentoring less experienced team members.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering required. A Bachelors degree in another field may be considered with five (5) years of planning optimization simulation mathematical modeling analytics decision-support systems or closely related experience required.
• Four (4) years of experience working with planning optimization scheduling analytics operations research or decision-support models and tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert-level skills in building complex maintainable automated tools for production business processes demonstrated through Microsoft Excel and VBA or equivalent technologies (e.g. Python SQL/database automation or other scripting and application-development platforms).
• Strong SQL skills including writing and tuning queries against relational databases (e.g. SQL Server) to extract and shape large multi-table datasets.
• Hands-on data pipeline and ETL experiencesourcing transforming validating and loading data from multiple enterprise systems into standardized formats.
• Demonstrated ability to design standardized robust low-maintenance tooling and templates that are scalable and easy for non-technical users to operate.
• Familiarity with linear programming DPO or refinery optimization models (e.g. Aspen PIMS PIMS-AO XPIMS Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain Planner) and the data structures they require.
• Exposure to refinery or value-chain planning processes such as near-term short-term mid-term back casting or cross-regional optimization.
• Experience manipulating and analyzing complex high-volume high-dimensional data from varying sources.

• Working knowledge of Power Query Power BI Python or other data-transformation and automation tools.

• Proven ability to think critically and solve problems given incomplete information and/or ambiguous requirements delivering results at varying levels of precision.

• Strong documentation habits and a collaborative approach to supporting business users.

Skills

• AI Fundamentals: Understanding of core AI concepts and methods ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
• Analytical Thinking: Strong problem-solving skills to identify architectural challenges analyze requirements evaluate options and propose effective solutions.
• Business Acumen: Applies knowledge of MPCs business industry and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPCs strategy.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation both incremental and large scale.
• Data Quality Assurance: Data Quality Assurance is any systematic process of checking to see whether organizational data that is being developed is meeting specified requirements in terms of relationships standards structure and content.
• Decision Support Analytics: Leverages analytics reporting and decision frameworks to generate insights evaluate alternatives and support informed data-driven decision-making.
• Decision Support System: Implements and optimizes digital tools and planning systems to support modeling analytics and decision processes ensuring scalability usability and alignment with business needs.
• Influencing Others: The ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence.
• Integrated Planning & Optimization: Designs and manages integrated planning processes that align supply demand and operational constraints to optimize value across the enterprise value chain.
• Model Governance: Establishes and enforces standards for data models and assumptions to ensure accuracy consistency transparency and reliability of planning and decision outputs.
• Optimization Modeling: Applies optimization models and quantitative techniques to evaluate scenarios improve system performance and support complex operational and commercial decisions.
• Problem Solving: Problem Solving is a step-by-step process of defining a problem searching for information and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. It involves critical thinking analysis and persistence
• Project and Program Management: The ability to monitor the progress of a program/projects timeline scope (if applicable) budget while also reporting the project status to stakeholders and identifying obstacles optimizing resource allocation and mitigating risks to completing the project in accordance with the plan realigning and refreshing the approach and plan as required.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build alignment across internal and external stakeholders to support shared objectives.
• Systems Thinking: The ability to analyze complex systems and understand their interdependencies considering both technical and business aspects to develop comprehensi

As an energy industry leader our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.

Location:

Findlay Ohio

Additional locations:

Houston Texas San Antonio Texas

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Location Address:

539 S Main St

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Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race color religion creed sex gender (including pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression reproductive health decision-making age mental or physical disability medical condition or AIDS/HIV status ancestry national origin genetic information military veteran status marital status citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal state or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant click here.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP please contact our Human Resources Department at . Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes but is not limited to access to health vision and dental insurance paid time off 401k matching program paid parental leave and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at .The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability

We will consider all qualified Applicants for employment including those with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.

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