Senior Scheduler

Houston, TX

Full time

R8783

#WeAreONEOK –
Fortune 500 company. 100+ years in business. Leading midstream service provider. Safety first. Sustainable operations. Environmentally responsible. Employee focused.

Performs expert level of work related to confirmation and scheduling activities for intrastate and interstate natural gas transmission pipelines, and storage assets.

• The role will be Houston-based remote work

• The schedule for this role are structured around either after-hours weekday shifts or weekend shifts.

• Confirm, schedule and allocate daily nominations on Natural Gas Pipelines

• Monitor, mitigate and/or manage shipper/customer imbalances and Operational Balance Agreement (OBA) imbalances (as specified by position)

• Coordinate with commercial/account managers regarding overall daily scheduling and balancing positions on interstate and intrastate pipelines; report any problems regarding flow of gas.

• Interact with gas control representatives, customers, operators, producers, pipeline companies and others concerning nominations, allocations, imbalances, daily flow and operational orders

• Calculate, prepare, analyze and/or verify information or reports including, but not limited to:

• Allocations

• Balancing deliveries

• Nominations and confirmations

• Pricing

• Flow rates/capacity issues

• Measurement discrepancies

• Storage balances

• Electronic bulletin board communications

• Provide training, instruction and guidance for scheduling colleagues

• Attend meetings representing the department to provide insight and direction on projects or cross-departmental issues

• Assist leader by reviewing the work of colleagues

• Recommend new processes and initiate new ideas; take lead role during implementations of new systems and processes

• Analyze data and complete projects with generally no assistance; may serve as a project manager

• Available to occasionally work outside designated work schedule in order to handle supply disruptions, changes and emergencies

• Available to be on-call regarding scheduling disruptions, emergencies and additional issues

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, business administration or an equivalent combination of formal education and the following job related knowledge or experience

• 5+ years related work experience scheduling and/or related experience in the oil and gas industry

• Experience and thorough knowledge of nomination and scheduling of natural gas or NGL volumes on a pipeline system

• Experience and knowledge of operational aspects and assets across the systems of the applicable business unit

• Experience in use of software such as:
  Microsoft Excel, Word, Access and Power Point

• Experience and/or training related to:

• Gas purchase and sales

• Gas control

• Gas accounting

• Transportation services

• Volume control

• Customer service

• Pipeline tariffs

• Pipeline operations

• NGL distribution (as specified by position)

• Experience working in a time-sensitive environment with inflexible deadlines

• Experience reading and interpreting applicable contracts, agreements, reports, statements, invoices, confirmations, correspondence, tariffs, government regulations, industry standards, electronic bulletin board communications and company policies and procedures

• Experience composing and preparing balancing reports, volume summaries, confirmations, reports, pipeline postings, storage reports and electronic bulletin board communications

• Experience analyzing information, conducting meetings and making presentations

• Knowledge of: scheduling functions and commercial relationships with the ability to discern functional and transactional effects

• Skills in: sound problem solving which include the ability to: research, analyze and resolve issues…