Commercial Ops Advisor

Western Midstream seeks a Commercial Operations Representative to join the Midstream scheduling organization in The Woodlands, TX office. This role focuses on midstream scheduling for Western Midstream operated assets.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and hardworking individual with the willingness/ability to work in a high-energy environment
• Ability to develop and maintain critical relationships both internally and externally across diverse stakeholder groups on a 24/7 basis when on duty, including remaining in contact at night and on weekends as needed
• Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks and meet short deadlines while demonstrating a commonsense approach to problem solving
• Seeks additional responsibilities as learning progression occurs
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills (including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
• Experience in gas/midstream scheduling (desired)

Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field. High School Diploma or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Daily interaction with producers to adjust nominations from wellhead and residue/NGLs/crude markets to mitigate imbalances on WES operated system
• Balance plant OBAs and monitor TIK shippers’ imbalances on gathering system
• Monitor and balance NGL allocation on downstream pipes
• Confirm all daily nomination activity on residue pipelines
• Monitor Cygnet to ensure field is flowing efficiently and within contractual bounds
• Work with field operations to make set-point changes to physically deliver according to confirmed nominations
• Calculate contractual or actual plant shrink, plant fuel, and field fuel
• Coordinate with WES personnel, working interest owners, production operators, and pipeline personnel on operational issues
• Notify downstream marketing of critical upstream and downstream issues prior to morning trading activity whenever possible
• Coordinate with Commercial Development and manage events impacting business, such as new wells, new lines, company divestitures, outages, processing elections, etc.
• Maintain adequate daily and monthly records, including operational events, force majeure, etc., for audit trail and backup coverage
• Coordinate with midstream accounting on any billing and reconciliation issues
• Provide end-of-the-month reports to accounting and customers
• Provide weekly reports to customers
• Maintain EMK3 system daily
• Establish and maintain industry contacts and relationships with customers, pipelines, operators, and other working interest owners
• Cross-train with other team members to enable vacation and weekend coverage
• Provide monthly estimates/availabilities to downstream marketing
• Perform evening, weekend, and holiday on-call duties
• Provide upper management with reports to reflect actual vs. forecasted flows
• Analyze and suggest ethane rejection or recovery for operated plants by monitoring operations and economics

Schedule

• Hybrid schedule: in-office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday; remote Wednesday and Friday
• Monday–Thursday: 9 hours per day; Friday: 4 hours
• On-call/after-hours support required as needed

Travel will be required up to 5%. This position is not eligible for relocation.