Jobs at PBF Energy

Leads process engineering for refinery operations, supervises and mentors process engineers, directs troubleshooting and technical planning, supports optimization and turnaround activities, maintains monitoring and modeling programs, evaluates improvement projects, supports incident investigations, and collaborates with business teams on priorities, training, recruitment, and performance management.

Schedules inbound feedstocks and outbound renewable diesel shipments by water, rail, and truck. Coordinates with refinery and trading teams on inventory, forecasts, purchases, and sales obligations. Reviews contracts, secondary costs, invoices, payment terms, compliance documentation, and cash forecasting inputs. Enters accurate data into RightAngle and supports accounting adjustments. This is an onsite role five days per week.

Repairs, machines, installs, balances, and aligns refinery equipment including pumps, compressors, turbines, fans, and gearboxes. Performs shop repairs using lathes, mills, boring equipment, and drill presses. Works rotating 12-hour shifts, overtime, weekends, holidays, confined spaces, elevated structures, and outdoor conditions. Coordinates with teams, performs incidental craft work, maintains skills through training, and meets physical, testing, background, drug-screening, and computer proficiency requirements.

Maintains, validates, and enhances refinery linear programming models used for feedstock selection, blending, operational planning, and economic decisions. Supports refinery users, troubleshoots model cases, leads backcasting against actual performance, improves data workflows, and coordinates modeling priorities with refinery and corporate stakeholders. Requires refinery process engineering, economics, or planning experience and willingness to travel approximately 5%.

Coordinates petroleum product quality programs covering crude oil and feedstock sampling, testing, specifications, custody transfers, audits, regulatory compliance, incident investigations, and laboratory oversight. Supports quality assurance for refineries, terminals, pipelines, vessels, and third-party inspection companies. The role communicates with traders, schedulers, suppliers, customers, and operational stakeholders, and requires onsite work, field exposure, and approximately 10% travel.

Manages PBF Energy’s transfer-pricing processes between Commercial and Refining, ensuring consistent methodology application, controls, reporting accuracy, and performance measurement. Evaluates and implements material-change transfer-pricing and P&L adjustments, partners with cross-functional teams, and drives process improvements, automation, and analytics initiatives. The role is onsite five days per week at the company headquarters in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Leads plant-wide reliability initiatives for refinery assets, focusing on reducing downtime and maintenance costs. Develops asset strategies, performs root cause failure analyses, uses maintenance and condition-monitoring data, supports equipment selection and capital projects, and tracks reliability metrics. Collaborates across operations, maintenance, engineering, inspection, and projects while mentoring engineers and promoting safety, risk-based decisions, and continuous improvement.

Designs, maintains, troubleshoots, and improves electrical systems and equipment supporting refinery operations. Develops reliability strategies, investigates failures, performs relay coordination, short-circuit, and load-flow studies, and supports capital projects from design through startup. Provides technical guidance on maintenance, operating procedures, hazardous-area installations, industry standards, and electrical plant modifications involving switchgear, relays, MCCs, UPSs, and battery systems.

Provides process engineering design and project support for refinery capital projects from concept through commissioning. Owns relief valve and flare system programs, performs equipment sizing and process calculations, develops PFDs, P&IDs, and heat and material balances, and uses Aspen HYSYS, PI System, and Seeq for modeling, troubleshooting, and optimization. Supports process safety, environmental compliance, commissioning, multidisciplinary reviews, mentoring, and process improvement initiatives.

Supervise refinery maintenance craft and contractors to execute safe, high-quality, efficient work. Enforce HSE procedures, investigate incidents, coordinate multi-craft activities, review schedules and work packages, verify job readiness and quality, manage staffing and overtime, communicate with operations, maintain documentation, and support emergencies and turnarounds. Develop employees, coordinate contractor work, participate in on-call coverage, and ensure maintenance deadlines and processes are met.

Provide process engineering design and project support for refinery capital and optimization projects. Develop PFDs/P&IDs, equipment sizing, simulations, and safety reviews; support FEED, commissioning, troubleshooting, turnarounds, and cross-functional teams while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring compliance with industry and site standards.

Manage ISCC program compliance and related European regulatory schemes, maintain mass balance and GHG calculations, lead audits, provide regulatory documentation and traceability, and partner with commercial and operations teams to ensure compliant execution of renewable fuel transactions.

Lead company-wide implementation of turnaround and capital project controls: standardize planning, scheduling, estimating, cost control and software systems (P6/CPMS/SAP), train and audit site teams, manage KPIs, integrate tools with enterprise systems, and support continuous improvement and contractor performance across refineries. Requires significant travel during rollout.

Provide litigation and regulatory support to Managing Counsel including legal research and writing, manage discovery and ESI, use eDiscovery and legal-hold tools, prepare documents and exhibits, track deadlines, assist with records retention, invoice review, and administrative tasks onsite at Martinez Refinery.

Lead mechanical integrity and reliability programs for a refinery: oversee inspections, RBI, compliance with codes (ASME, API, NBIC), manage integrity plans and budgets, coach staff, drive failure analysis and reliability improvements, and coordinate with maintenance, projects, and turnarounds.

Provide advanced process control (APC) support for refinery operations: design, implement, troubleshoot Honeywell control system applications, develop inferentials/soft sensors and DMC applications, support capital projects, ensure safety/environmental compliance, and assist operations and maintenance.

Lead and manage a team of process engineers to provide day-to-day refinery unit troubleshooting, technical assurance, and long-term process optimization. Oversee safety, MOC and PHA delivery, resource allocation for turnarounds and projects, mentor staff, and support margin improvement and operational reliability across refinery process units.

Lead and support refinery DCS/PCN/ICS operations and projects: install, maintain, and troubleshoot Honeywell DCS and PCN hardware/software; implement OT cybersecurity (NIST, IEC 62443); perform vulnerability assessments; manage documentation, backups, incident response, and compliance; coordinate vendors; train operations/maintenance; support capital projects and on-call rotations.

Lead site incident investigations and personal safety programs at a refinery. Ensure regulatory compliance, develop safety programs and training, conduct field audits and coaching, analyze safety data and KPIs, support turnarounds and contractor safety, and collaborate with stakeholders to implement corrective actions and improve safety performance.

Senior in-house counsel providing legal advice on HSE regulatory compliance, complex litigation, labor and procurement matters for a refinery. Represent the refinery in enforcement actions, manage outside counsel and budgets, support audits, develop regulatory advocacy, and deliver compliance training to business teams.