Pipeline Scheduler

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Findlay, OH

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

MPL is seeking a highly motivated individual who is focused on commercial opportunities to generate revenue for MPL/MPLX and to optimize their assigned pipeline system(s) to save operating costs while ensuring a high level of service to MPL/MPLX’s shippers. A scheduler interfaces with shipper scheduling personnel, connecting carriers, the Operations Center, and field personnel to plan, communicate, and manage the monthly movement schedules. Schedules are developed to optimize system utilization, hydraulics, and operating costs while minimizing contamination and the intermixing of crude. This scheduler opportunity within Marathon Pipeline's (MPL) Movements Organization is in the Crude Oil Movements Group.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related experience required.
In lieu of a degree, 5 years of industry experience is required.
Experience with Excel (including familiarity with data manipulation and writing functions), Outlook and Word.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of downstream operations and/or pipeline operations is preferred.

Responsibilities

Remains on call 24 hours/7 days per week to adjust schedules for problems due to operational upsets or emergencies.
Plans pipeline schedules to optimize pipeline utilization, hydraulics and operating costs such as energy, DRA, etc.
Prepares and distributes daily operational and shipper inventory reports to communicate supply positions, inventory balances, and potential supply concerns to operations personnel, shippers, and connecting carriers.
Reviews and analyzes requirements of customers to determine the proper batch size, sequence and timing at origin and destination points.
Communicates with scheduling personnel of shippers and connecting carriers to develop proper timing and grades of receipt and deliveries.
Provides appropriate schedules and instructions to shippers, connecting carriers, the Operations Center and field personnel and updates these to reflect changes in batch size, sequence, timing, origin, etc.
Identify business growth opportunities by understanding MPL/MPLX’s critical success factors and utilizing market information as well as implementing schedule efficiencies.
Identify synergies by working with shippers, connecting carriers, MPL/G&P field personnel and Logistics and Storage Engineering (L&SE) to minimize system downtime.