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Utilities Strategic Planner

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Jun 2025

About the role

About us

At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.

The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.

We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.

About Baytown

With a population of more than 77,000, Baytown, Texas, is located in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, just east of Houston, the nation's fourth largest city. Those who live and work in Baytown will find an area rich in history, as well as opportunities for outdoor activities due to its proximity to scenic waterways, namely Galveston Bay, the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.

Founded in 1919, ExxonMobil's Baytown Complex is located on approximately 3,400 acres along the Houston Ship Channel, about 25 miles east of Houston. Employing a workforce of more than 8,500, it is comprised of four manufacturing sites, including one in nearby Mont Belvieu, and a global technology center. These include the Baytown Refinery, one of the largest refineries in the United States, and the Baytown Olefins Plant, one of the largest ethylene plants in the world.

Its scope of products includes fuels, lube oils, and chemical compounds used in a diverse range of products, from auto battery cases, diapers and tire inner tubes to pharmaceutical uses, food packaging, trash bags and more.

The Baytown area sites are highly integrated, which makes the plants and products more efficient as we develop technologies to make cleaner fuels and work together to operate more safely and reliably.

Learn more about what we do in Baytown here.

What role you will play in our team

Our Utilities Strategic Planner supports the site’s long term strategic planning. The role will lead technical development of strategic pooled utilities projects, support development of our Utilities Business Strategy and Vulnerability Review as well as own updates to site Utilities Reliability Principles. You will think strategically and collaborate across many teams, levels and situations to facilitate long term strategic plans.

What you will do

Leverage broad background skillset to drive organizational prioritization/find optimal solution of utilities projects
Understand and correctly apply long term project economics (potential impact of appropriate market and other material sensitivities on project viability)
Develop organizational knowledge to steer through barriers/priorities
Utilize key resources across the Baytown Area and above-site to lay out long term strategic plans
Own and develop long term utilities balances (steam, water, power, N2, natural gas, H2, fuel gas, spent/fresh caustic)
Properly apply system constraints to project planning to evaluate projects across the site
Bridge future business driven change with current optimized solutions
Lead/facilitate/support Project Gates and coordinate development and approval of any Gate Forms and/or Appropriation Requests
Coordinate development of scoping cost & schedule estimate, working with other organizations as appropriate
Lead and/or support process optimization studies to identify or evaluate capital or operational cost savings, process configuration alternatives, safety facilities requirements, etc.