Senior NGL Scheduler

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Houston, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This NGL Commercial Scheduling role is responsible for mitigating inventory-management risks and coordinating and optimizing commercial value by scheduling NGL movements into and out of refineries, proprietary facilities, third-party facilities, and storage. Movements are coordinated to address refinery demand and reconciled against commercial contracts designated by marketers or traders and refinery demand. The role is assigned primarily to the USGC region, with possible interaction with other enterprise assets and facilities. Scheduling modes include truck, rail, pipeline, and waterborne transportation; the role may also expand to include fractionation activity and planning. The scheduler interacts with a broad range of internal organizations and conducts business with pipelines, facility personnel, trading companies, and other external partners. The successful candidate is organized, self-motivated, team-oriented, and entrepreneurial. The final scope of the role will depend on the selected candidate’s experience level.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, or five years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
Four or more years of industry-related experience.
Organized, self-motivated, and team-oriented, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Problem-solving, critical-thinking, and personal-resilience skills.

Nice To Haves

Two or more years of NGL experience preferred.
Experience managing complex scheduling desks and training or mentoring less-experienced schedulers.

Responsibilities

Nominate and schedule pipeline, waterborne, truck, rail, and other delivery movements using proprietary and third-party scheduling systems; monitor inventories and shipping schedules daily to ensure supply meets demand.
Communicate and verify planned movements with stakeholders, including traders, optimizers, internal and external counterparties, customers, suppliers, producers, marketers, terminals, vessels, and pipelines.
Provide forward-looking inventory-position information to Trading, Pricing, Marketing, Trucking, and Supervision to support inventory strategies.
Respond to unexpected events and make contingency arrangements to minimize supply disruptions.
Provide guidance on movement issues across assigned and other desks; proactively identify constraints and opportunities to optimize plans and mitigate disruptions.
Identify transportation efficiencies while minimizing per-barrel transportation costs, and maintain an understanding of the regional supply picture.
Manage multiple complex desks and assist with onboarding, training, and mentoring less-experienced schedulers.
Monitor refinery and/or fractionation production plans and anticipate operational requirements to manage inventory and fulfill operational and commercial obligations.
Prepare daily status reports communicating supply concerns to Trading/Marketing, refinery and/or fractionation operations personnel, customers, and other stakeholders.
Work with traders to align strategies addressing variances between refinery plans and customer commitments, constraints from unplanned events, and changes in market fundamentals; coordinate with internal and external partners on adjustments.
Identify ways to streamline processes and support shared bench goals and profitability while completing daily duties.
Facilitate and help execute cross-functional plans with Pipeline, Facility/Terminal, Transport Operations, Marketing/Trading, and other key stakeholders on issues that could affect supply to a destination.
Coordinate closely with internal counterparts regarding current plans and planned or unplanned deviations.
Apply problem-solving, critical-thinking, and personal-resilience skills.