Site Optimizer, Stenungsund

About the role

Location: Sweden - Stenungsund

Hours: Full-Time

Type of Contract: Permanent

Application Deadline: 18.05.2025

Make It Real and maximize performance, shape strategy and drive profitability!

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for numbers, models, and chemical processes? Become the driving force behind the optimization of our Stenungsund cracker, a key asset in the Base Chemicals business. We’re looking for a proactive Site Optimizer who thrives on maximizing value through smart modeling, analysis, and collaboration.

What You’ll Do – Turn Insight into Action

As the Site Optimizer, you’ll take the lead in profit maximization through technical and economic analysis, leveraging the powerful Aspen PIMS modeling system. Your role is pivotal in bridging the gap between business strategy and operations, ensuring our cracker is always running at peak profitability.

• Execute weekly/monthly optimization using commodity pricing and technical constraints
• Interface between BU Base Chemicals (BU BC) and the Stenungsund production team
• Guide feed and product decisions, and set operational windows for maximum EBIT
• Maintain and improve reference and LP models, tools, and reporting systems
• Chair weekly OPEC meetings to translate BU BC targets into production actions
• Support projects affecting feedstocks, production rates, or product slates
• Track, evaluate, and report on optimization model performance and real-world results
• Deliver planning input and ensure top-quality data for all key stakeholders

You will have the decision rights to set up and instruct production based on your model outcomes – a true strategic influencer in our value chain.

About you

We are looking for you who can bring expertise, vision, and drive. We believe you have a university degree in Engineering, 5-10 years of experience within the process industry / operations and  hands-on experience with Aspentech PIMS modeling. Also financial literacy and understanding of steam cracker processes.

Key Skills

• Strong analytical thinking with a strategic mindset
• Excellent communicator and confident presenter
• Skilled in simplifying complex topics
• Curious, conceptual thinker with a drive for continuous improvement
• Team-oriented and proactive in cross-functional settings

Our offer

Borealis has competitive compensation and benefits which you can read more about on our Career Page.

For this role in Stenungsund we also offer

• Friskvårdsbidrag
• Bonus 
• Arbetstidsförkortning
• Utökat föräldraledighetstillägg
• Borealis har en personalstiftelse där du exempelvis kan hyra stugor i fjällen samt lägenheter i Spanien förmånligt

Application Process

If you're excited about the prospect of joining our team and being a part of Making It Real, please submit your application via the “apply now” button in the job posting to apply directly.

If you have any questions, please contact Malin Westman, gabriella.mjolnevik@borealisgroup.com. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy for further applications when we have received sufficient applications that meet the advertised requirements and will contact you as soon as screening is closed.

At Borealis, we are committed to an equal recruitment process. We value diversity, and all applicants & employees are treated fairly and equally. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination based on factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. 
 

Borealis only accepts candidate resumes from recruiters or recruiting agencies if they have been explicitly commissioned by Borealis for a specific recruitment and if the data is provided to us in line with the General Data Protection Regulation. Borealis will not accept or pay fees for candidate resumes of any form or kind that were sent unsolicited to either HR or directly to our hiring managers.