Description
The Natural Gas Scheduler is responsible for coordinating the daily receipt, transportation, and delivery of natural gas across interstate and intrastate pipeline systems. This role manages nominations, confirmations, imbalances, and customer communications while ensuring accurate commercial transactions within the Quorum Pipeline Transaction Management (QPTM) system. Working closely with Pipeline Operations, Gas Control, customers, interconnecting pipelines, and third-party counterparties, the Natural Gas Scheduler plays a key role in maintaining safe, reliable, and efficient pipeline operations while ensuring commercial activities are accurately scheduled, tracked, and invoiced.
Responsibilities:
• Assist shippers with nominations and confirm scheduled quantities on interstate and intrastate pipelines for the receipt and delivery of natural gas.
• Monitor scheduled versus actual gas flows and proactively calculate and manage shipper and OBA imbalances.
• Coordinate corrective actions to minimize imbalance exposure and maintain system balance whenever possible.
• Navigate EBB’s of major interstate and intrastate pipelines as it relates to scheduling, confirming gas and reporting functions.
• Frequently communicate and support shippers regarding nominations, contract information, scheduling discrepancies, operational cuts, and transportation issues.
• Monitor gas flow, pressure and quality on SCADA for pipeline and coordinate with Gas Control regarding operational conditions, capacity constraints, maintenance activities, and flow changes to maintain safe and reliable pipeline operations.
• Accurately and promptly exchange daily nomination data with external counterparties and internal gas control.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with interconnecting pipelines, plants, transportation customers, and other commercial counterparties.
• Respond promptly to customer inquiries and provide exceptional customer service.
• Verify transportation contract information, nomination accuracy, and scheduled quantities.
• Assist scheduling team with daily and monthly volume allocations and measurement details.
• Proactively tend to customer inquiries, process customer retroactive requests and EBB new user setups, and perform ad hoc duties requested or required by management.
• Maintain working knowledge of applicable pipeline tariffs, scheduling practices, and industry standards.
• Participation in a rotating on-call schedule, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, is required.
• Always represent company to shippers, customers and connecting operators in a courteous, respectful, and professional manner.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Excel proficiency required
- 3+ years of pipeline scheduling experience
- Quorum experience helpful.
- High attention to detail and ability to multi-task, analyze situations and quickly prioritize tasks.
- Thorough understanding of pipeline operations, including pressures, flow rates, capacity issues, and gas quality requirements.
- Ability to excel in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment which requires balancing multiple tasks under scheduled deadlines.
- Strong analytical, time management, organizational, and communication skills required both verbally and written.
- Exposure to Texas Intrastate Pipelines, e.g., Agua Blanca, Atmos, Trans-Pecos, Oasis, HPL, KM Tejas, KM Texas, Enterprise, Oneok, Valley Crossing Pipeline, Nextera EFM, NET Mexico and GCX
- Familiarity with the following interstate pipelines: EPNG, NGPL, NNG, Transco, TETCO and Tennessee.
- Experience with SCADA preferred.
- Communication and Teamwork skills required: Candidate must possess excellent interpersonal skills and effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to optimize team success.
- Be a self-starter, be able to prioritize job duties, and proactively seek or suggest solutions
- Keep to assigned schedule to best support the position's workgroup and related departments
Benefits: This position is located in Austin or Houston, Texas. Selected candidate is eligible for employer matched 401(k), medical, dental, vision, basic life and AD&D insurances and other benefit offerings.
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