This position will lead a team of pipeline schedulers and ensure alignment of nominations and physical flow across WhiteWater natural gas pipelines and natural gas storage facility. The Manager will oversee the group’s daily scheduling activities as well as train, mentor, and backfill scheduling positions as needed.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of gas schedulers, ensuring consistent expectations, processes, and policies across the team, providing suggestions and expertise to commercial and operations on optimization opportunities, and supporting the team in decision making on non-routine items.
- Monitor and coach employee performance as well as train new hires. Complete performance evaluations for each team member.
- Ensure optimal customer service with counterparties as well as Gas Control, field operations, measurement, accounting, and commercial staff.
- Establish and maintain positive relationships with producers, marketers, pipelines, shippers, and various other industry partners.
- Review the daily gas nominations and evaluate the reasonableness of nominations by shippers based on current and historical trends, communicating directly with shippers as necessary.
- Collaborate with internal teams to decide how to manage gas nominations in the event of constrained assets while balancing contractual, physical, and financial considerations as well as customer impact of nomination cuts.
- Review and stay familiar with customer contractual obligations.
- Ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, and operational requirements.
- Set expectations and support operations group in monthly settlement process responsibilities.
- Monitor gas flow, pressure and quality on SCADA, and collaborate with Control Center to ensure pipeline optimization to help drive team decision making processes.
- Support team in reconciliation of actual flow data against nominations to ensure accuracy by tracking and resolving imbalance discrepancies when necessary.
- Continually drive operational efficiency improvements by highlighting opportunities for business process or IT system changes. Lead team through Quorum system testing for new projects or enhancements and provide reporting on progress and issues.
- Develop internal culture where team looks to improve efficiency and customer service through the use of technology and automation.
- Generate and circulate reports to all levels of management.
- Build strong working relationships with all internal departments to maintain the overall integrity of all work product.
- Willingness to serve intermittently as a “relief Scheduler”, if needed.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 10+ years of pipeline scheduling experience.
- Proven ability to lead and train team members. Be available afterhours to assist or guide team members as needed and in a timely manner.
- Quorum experience.
- High attention to detail and ability to multi-task, analyze situations and quickly prioritize tasks.
- Be available to team members during cycle deadlines to ensure adequate coverage for advisory and troubleshooting.
- Thorough understanding of pipeline operations, including pressures, flow rates, capacity issues, and gas quality requirements.
- Ability to be available when pipeline emergencies require attention with a possibility of relocating during storm or similar event.
- Ability to work on weekends, evenings, or holidays when necessary utilizing the same 3-screen setup at home that is required in-office.
- Ability to balance multiple tasks under tight deadlines and respond quickly to operational changes.
- Ability to work an on-call schedule to fill any gaps, if needed.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills required both verbally and written.
- Demonstrate a high level of personal accountability, professionalism, and business acumen. Lead by example and maintain composure through challenging situations.
- Exposure to Texas Intrastate Pipelines, e.g., Agua Blanca, Atmos, Trans-Pecos, Oasis, HPL, KM Tejas, KM Texas, Enterprise, Oneok, Valley Crossing Pipeline, Nextera EFM, NET Mexico and GCX preferred.
- Familiarity with the following interstate pipelines: EPNG, NGPL, NNG, Transco, TETCO and Tennessee.
- Experience viewing operational data through SCADA preferred.
- Candidate must possess excellent interpersonal skills and effectively collaborate with others to optimize team success.
- Ability to sit for prolonged periods as needed or required to fulfill the role.
Benefits: This position is a full-time, office-based position located in Houston, Texas. Selected candidate is eligible for employer matched 401(k), medical, dental, vision, basic life and AD&D insurances and other benefit offerings. Relocation assistance to the Houston area may be offered to the selected candidate.
