Natural Gas Scheduler

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Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too.

Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

Responsible for supporting the efficient, reliable and safe execution of the regional supply plan, using basic analytical capabilities to coordinate the effective scheduling of physical movements into and out of supply networks and making efficiency trade-offs.

Natural Gas Schedulers play an integral role in our operational capability at bp. A successful candidate will thrive in our challenging, diverse, and fast paced culture. Because we play and believe in one team: we cultivate an environment where we trust one another, embrace feedback, challenge our norms and expect sustained high performance.

This position is on the Natural Gas Operations team within Trading & Shipping's Gas and Power Trading Americas (GPTA) and will be located in our Houston office.

bp offers a hybrid working environment, allowing employees to work remotely on Friday and in the office Monday through Thursday and offers additional pay for coverage on the weekends and U.S. holidays.

• Make required natural gas nominations to various North American pipelines, using the appropriate computer systems
• Assure flow of equity and third-party production
• Manage and track imbalances on pipelines
• Communicate market intelligence to trading teams
• Identify and support efficiencies and improvements with operational processes
• Monthly balancing in Open Link Endur
• Maintain excellent working relationships with pipelines, customers and internal parties
• Work with finance, risk and accounting to ensure accuracy in a timely fashion
• Participation in rotational weekend nomination coverage
• Understand pipeline/customer behavior and extract key insights that impact nomination and transactional decisions
• Function as a strategic partner to enabling teams, prioritize opportunities and provide actionable recommendations
• Work across multiple scheduling teams to drive automation, standardization and integration

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience preferred
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• Initiative-taking and independent problem solver
• Skilled in interacting and influencing across a wide range of professional teams
• Ability to multi-task and manage high pressure situations in a dynamic environment with critical time deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent analytical, computational, and critical thinking skills including proficiency in Excel
• Manages product supply and demand balances for the defined region, delivering reliable supply and mitigating supply disruptions.
• Executes overall supply chain processes, trading and asset strategies, leading initiatives from definition to execution and identifying efficiencies.
• Ensures supply reliability incidents are resolved, implementing actions for continuous improvements and opportunities to minimize costs throughout the supply chain.
• Complies with bp’s Code of Conduct and models bp’s Values & Behaviors.

• Ability to work in a team-first setting
• High resiliency in stressful situations
• Unique backgrounds to introduce novel thinking and approaches

At bp, we believe diversity strengthens our team. We foster an inclusive environment where everyone is respected and empowered to grow. Our benefits are designed to support your life inside and outside of work, including flexible working options, paid parental leave, and excellent retirement plans.

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