Supply Chain

Supply Chain & Logistics Specialist, Refinery & Downstream Petrochemicals - Saudi Arabia - Job ID 3816

**Position details**:
Type: Contract

Working environment

Their high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding, professional, technical and industrial opportunities they offer, and are remunerated accordingly. Their people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, they are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logístical and environmental challenges, they invest heavily in talent development. They have a proud history of educating and training their workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through their workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

Key Responsibilities:
Developing and implementing a comprehensive supply chain strategy for one or more integrated refinery and petrochemical complexes.

Daily Interaction with different Organizations to interpret, analyze, and act on their needs and requirements related to the supply chain management, supply chain logistics, pipelines systems and infrastructure.

Reviewing plans/deliverables for new integrated refinery and petrochemical projects to ensure that they comply with Company Standards and Regulations as well as industry codes related to supply chain management and logistics.

Developing Philosophies for OSBL/ISBL Interconnecting Pipelines for the products and feedstocks from marine to the refinery and petrochemical facilities and vice versa including feedstock cross-country pipelines (e.g. Ethane, Crude, etc.)

Participating in prefeasibility/feasibility studies as well as pre-FEED/FEED design phases for refinery and petrochemical projects. Participating in EPC studies for refinery and petrochemical projects.

Develop, review, and analyze engineering documents related to supply chain, logistics, utilities and infrastructure for refineries and petrochemical complexes such as, but not limited to, marine terminals, jetties, berths, logistics hubs, liquids and solids handling centers, in-bound and out-bound pipelines to and from the facilities, rail systems to transport products to the marine, trucking, products handling in terms of intermediate storage tanks, warehouses, packaging, extrusion, etc. and others.

Develop/Review design documents and philosophies for shared/common services supporting the refinery and petrochemical projects such as buildings, control rooms, laboratory, fire stations, fire water system, telecommunications, housing and community, etc.

Run economic models and read linear programming models as well as analyze the financial and economic metrics of projects such as IRR, NPV, PI, cash flow analysis, EBITDA, etc.

Develop and negotiate 3rd party Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreements, supply agreements, joint development agreements, definitive agreements, and other commercial aspects for supply chain systems (e.g. sourcing of raw materials/chemicals, multi-logistics hub, centralized storage tanks, etc.), utility systems (e.g. COGEN, Air Separation Unit, Hydrogen Production Unit, etc.) and infrastructure (centralized laboratory, etc.) of refinery and petrochemical projects.

Lead commercial negotiations and projects development for 3rd party supply chain and logistics projects executed using 3rd party business models such as Build/Own/Operate (BOO), Build/Own/Operate/Transfer (BOOT), etc.

Define marine berths, jetties, terminals, polymers logistic systems, warehouses, storage tankage, products handling as well as interconnecting grids networks and transportation requirements to support the multiple projects.

Develop supply chain procedures, including inventory management, warehousing, automation, systems integration, and distribution.

Run end to end supply chain assessment to ensure smooth delivery of finished products from source to destination.

Participate in market studies to understand market supply and demand for targeted projects produced from the facilities.

Collecting and interpreting analytical and performance data to determine supply chain KPIs.

Lead and implement Work Processes, Integrated Management Systems (ODMS), 3rd Party Logistics Contract Administration, and Operations improvement programs.

Identify, assess and optimize the material flow and risk trade-offs across the supply chain at a tactical or strategic level (inventory, purchasing costs, production costs, logistics costs, product quality, asset utilization, productivity and customer service).

Lead development of supply chain strategy, including customer/product mix analysis, customer/product segmentation, channels-to-market, capital investment, and sourcing decisions.

Test supply chain design scenarios, process variability and trade-offs through simulation modelling techniques.

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