Senior Engineer, Planning & Optimization

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Data Interpreter responsible for translating complex optimization outputs into actionable insights for Marathon Petroleum. Collaborating with business users and modeling teams to enhance decision-making.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeFindlay • North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $122,900 - $212,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Translates complex optimization model outputs into clear, actionable guidance for planners, schedulers, and commercial teams
Ensures consistency and accuracy in interpretation across PPIMS, XPIMS, DPO, and other optimization platforms
Provide day-to-day decision support to business users
Partners with modeling teams to validate assumptions and align model results with operational realities
Applies creative problem-solving to reconcile apparent conflicts between model outputs and business intuition
Builds and maintains trusted relationships with planners, schedulers, commercial teams, and operations personnel
Proactively engages stakeholders to understand their decision contexts, sources of confusion, and skepticism regarding model outputs
Facilitates dialogue that builds mutual understanding and model confidence
Partners with Regional VCO, Commercial, and Operations to integrate model insights into planning and execution cycles

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required
Four (4) years relevant experience required
Technical Services or Economics & Planning experience preferred
Experience working with LP models (PIMS), as well as Refining and Midstream operations preferred
Experience interpreting LP/DPO or refinery models (e.g., PIMS, XPIMS, GAMS, AIMMS) and communicating model output to stakeholders preferred
Exposure to Power BI, data visualization, or AI-assisted analytics platforms preferred
Proven ability to think critically and solve problems, given incomplete information and/or ambiguous requirements

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
Paid time off
401k matching program
Paid parental leave
Educational reimbursement
Discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program

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Hard Skills & Tools

optimization modelsLP modelsDPOPIMSXPIMSGAMSAIMMSdata visualizationAI-assisted analyticsproblem-solving

Soft Skills

communicationcritical thinkingrelationship buildingstakeholder engagementdialogue facilitationcreative problem-solvingdecision supportinterpretationconflict reconciliationmutual understanding