26-024.B - Oil & Gas Scheduler

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Oversee shipper nominations from receipt through operational execution, including confirmation with connecting carriers and coordination of control room orders.
• Manage and execute monthly and daily scheduling activities for crude oil, gas, and water gathering systems, including trunkline and rail loading terminal operations.
• Monitor scheduled versus actual volumes and proactively manage imbalances to ensure accurate execution and system integrity.
• Track and maintain accurate shipper inventory balances and ensure allocations align with contractual commitments and system movements.
• Confirm and validate shipper allocations in coordination with accounting and revenue departments and assist in resolving invoice-related volume discrepancies.
• Partner with field operations to coordinate planned and unplanned downtime, ensuring safe and efficient adjustments to normal pipeline operations.
• Ensure compliance with applicable pipeline tariffs, Transportation Service Agreements (TSAs), and contractual volume commitments.
• Maintain and analyze historical movement data to support accounting, forecasting, revenue reporting, and business development initiatives.
• Communicate operational constraints, capacity limitations, and maintenance impacts to internal stakeholders and shippers as necessary.
• Provide after-hours availability, including nights, weekends, and holidays, to address operational issues impacting North Dakota systems.

Other Job Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate commitment to company core values — Integrity, Ownership, Urgency, Alignment, and Innovation — in all daily responsibilities and interactions.
• Actively support and contribute to the company’s mission and vision through reliable, high-quality work
• Support the scheduling department through cross-training initiatives and provide coverage for other schedulers during absences to ensure continuity of operations.
• Participate in process improvement efforts and contribute to the development of standardized scheduling practices where applicable.

Qualifications:

• Five (5) to ten (10) years minimum oil and gas scheduling experience, with ten (10) years minimum in the oil and gas industry. 
• Ability to accurately solve problems and exceptional proficiency in data management.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, supervisors, other departments, officials, and the public. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to perform tasks and achieve results with a high degree of accuracy and precision. 
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic, high pressure work environment which requires the ability to balance multiple tasks under tight deadlines
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills required
• Familiarity with the EBBs of major interstate and intrastate gas pipelines as it relates to scheduling and confirming gas
• Familiarity with midstream gathering and processing of natural gas business
• On-call availability for evenings, weekends and holidays
• Regular and reliable attendance
• Software Knowledge: Microsoft Office Suite, Quorum Tips preferred but not required, pipeline EBB’s
• Proficiency in the use and application of:
  • Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and Outlook).

Education Requirements, Certifications, Licenses, and Registrations:

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year university or college with a degree in accounting/business or related experience.