Natural Gas Scheduler

bp•Houston, TX

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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 OpenLink 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
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.