Gas Scheduling Manager

WhiteWater Midstream • Austin, TX

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Gas Scheduling Manager leads a team of pipeline schedulers and ensures alignment between nominations and physical flow across WhiteWater natural gas pipelines and its natural gas storage facility. The manager oversees daily scheduling activities and trains, mentors, and backfills scheduling positions as needed. This is a full-time, office-based position located in Houston or Austin, Texas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10+ years of pipeline scheduling experience.
• Proven ability to lead and train team members.
• Quorum experience.
• High attention to detail and the ability to multitask, analyze situations, and prioritize quickly.
• Thorough understanding of pipeline operations, including pressures, flow rates, capacity issues, and gas quality requirements.
• Ability to balance multiple tasks under tight deadlines and respond quickly to operational changes.
• Strong verbal and written analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• High personal accountability, professionalism, and business acumen; ability to lead by example and remain composed in challenging situations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively to optimize team success.
• Ability to work weekends, evenings, or holidays when necessary, using the same three-screen setup at home that is required in the office.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods as needed to fulfill the role.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to Texas intrastate pipelines, such as Agua Blanca, Atmos, Trans-Pecos, Oasis, HPL, KM Tejas, KM Texas, Enterprise, Oneok, Valley Crossing Pipeline, Nextera EFM, NET Mexico, and GCX.
• Familiarity with interstate pipelines EPNG, NGPL, NNG, Transco, TETCO, and Tennessee.
• Experience viewing operational data through SCADA.

Responsibilities

• Lead gas schedulers, establish consistent team expectations, processes, and policies, advise commercial and operations teams on optimization opportunities, and support decisions on non-routine items.
• Monitor and coach employee performance, train new hires, and complete performance evaluations for team members.
• Ensure effective customer service and coordination with counterparties, Gas Control, field operations, measurement, accounting, and commercial staff.
• Build and maintain relationships with producers, marketers, pipelines, shippers, and other industry partners.
• Review daily gas nominations for reasonableness using current and historical trends, and communicate with shippers as needed.
• Collaborate with internal teams on nominations during asset constraints, balancing contractual, physical, financial, and customer considerations.
• Review and maintain familiarity with customer contractual obligations, and ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Set expectations and support the operations group with monthly settlement responsibilities.
• Monitor gas flow, pressure, and quality through SCADA, and collaborate with the Control Center on pipeline optimization and team decision-making.
• Support reconciliation of actual flow data against nominations, tracking and resolving imbalance discrepancies as needed.
• Drive operational efficiency improvements, identify business-process and IT-system changes, lead team testing of Quorum projects or enhancements, and report progress and issues.
• Promote a culture of efficiency and customer service through technology and automation.
• Generate and circulate reports to management at all levels.
• Build relationships with internal departments to maintain the integrity of work products.
• Serve intermittently as a relief Scheduler when needed.
• Provide after-hours assistance or guidance to team members, ensure coverage during cycle deadlines, and participate in an on-call schedule when needed.
• Respond to pipeline emergencies, including possible relocation during a storm or similar event, and work weekends, evenings, or holidays when necessary.

Benefits

• Employer-matched 401(k).
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Other benefit offerings.
• Relocation assistance to the Houston or Austin area may be offered to the selected candidate.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager