Scheduler, Pipeline

Lyondell Basell North America•Houston, TX

About The Position

This position coordinates pipeline movements for customers, suppliers and exchange partners for delivery, receipt, and storage of designated products, monitors inventories, tracks batches and interfaces batch transfers to meet customer satisfaction and to prevent non-conformances. Additionally, the position is responding for creating an operating plan and developing a schedule for coordination of product movements with the Inventory Planners (Marketing), Supplier and Customer representatives to be issued to Controlling and Storage Operations personnel. Interfaces with customers, various disciplines within the company and Control Center operations to ensure product inventories balance for the purpose of co-feeding and blending products. Reviews and reconciles line balances and inventories for the mass balance volumes, ensuring that they are accurate for monthly, and yearly mass balance reports to the marketing group, operations, and pipeline management.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
5+ years of related experience in accounting, pipeline operations, or logistics.
A strong accounting background with experience operating/managing liquid batch systems is preferred.
This position requires professional interpersonal customer relation skills necessary to provide quality oriented service and in establishing and maintaining sound credibility with customers.
Strong computer knowledge, proficiency with Excel spreadsheets for establishing reports and analyzing data associated with product movements.
Mathematical and analytical skills, trouble shooting ability, effective listening and communication skills that are necessary to ensure system integrity.
The Pipeline Scheduler interfaces extensively with corporate product managers, Inventory specialists, and internal / external customer representatives.

Responsibilities

Responsible for interfacing with corporate product managers and specialists to accurately capture customer and exchange agreement allocations to ensure correct quantity, quality, and delivery to meet customer requirements.
Partners with the customer and supplier representatives, pipeline and plant control centers, tank farm, and storage facilities to ensure that the scheduled product movements are accomplished within the systems logistical constraints.
Issue monthly, weekly, and daily operations instructions to Pipeline Operations for scheduled allocations, customer and supplier outages, projects, and associated maintenance work.
Sustain a thorough understanding of the Equistar plants, customers, and suppliers to support the operational needs of the pipeline facilities.
Maintain the spreadsheets and accounting software necessary to analyze and troubleshoot systems to make evaluations to the marketing and operations groups to assist in solving problems and situations that arise.
Maintain an advanced level of knowledge of the computer system programs, such as, excel, word, and FlowCal, to complete the daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for marketing, operations, and customers.