Manager – Scheduling, Crude Oil Marketing

About the role

The Manager – Scheduling, Crude Oil Marketing provides day-to-day and strategic leadership to a team of Schedulers. This includes providing technical training, appropriate oversight, mentoring, and employee onboarding, development, and corrective actions if necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Scheduling team in performing its core functional responsibilities, including nominating/scheduling/allocating crude oil on various assets, month-end closing activities, monthly review of inventory and storage positions, interconnect confirmations with carriers, power optimization initiatives, compliance with regulations, contracts, and company policies and procedures.
• Develop or modify applicable company policies, procedures, desk documentation, working norms, etc., to support the business line’s commercial strategies and obligations.
• Develop and manage internal and external relationships, including developing and maintaining strong internal relationships with other departments and communicating with and assisting those teams as needed, and developing and maintaining strong customer and connected carrier relationships.
• Oversee issue resolutions and develop solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Analyze, research, read, interpret, and/or communicate applicable business information, including company policies and procedures, confirmations, measurement reports, invoices and inventory statements, tariffs, commercial agreements.
• Oversee, prepare, process, and/or approve business processes or information, including summaries of nominations, volumetric, and inventory data, month-end closing process, system over/short analysis and inventory positions across assets, notifications to customers, ticketing and inventory discrepancy analysis, root cause determination, and applicable adjustments, procedures and process changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Three to five years of applicable prior experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of crude oil gathering, transportation, storage, and marketing operations.
• Experience with crude scheduling systems, logistics, and measurement.
• Proficient in standard business software and office systems.
• Experience in crude purchasing, contracting, supply operations, and facility operations.
• Experience in crude accounting, commercial marketing, and contract execution (purchase, sale, exchange).
• Skilled in researching, analyzing, and interpreting contracts, legal documents, and regulations.
• Effective communicator with experience working across teams and presenting to individuals and groups.

Skills

• Apply math, algebraic formulas, and statistical methods.
• Communicate and/or exchange verbal and written information or instructions.

Strength Factors

• Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.
• Standing: Remaining on one's feet in an upright position at a work station without moving about (Occasionally)
• Walking: Moving about on foot (Frequently)
• Sitting: Remaining in a seated position (Constantly)
• Lifting: Raising or lowering an object from one level to another (includes upward pulling) (Occasionally)
• Carrying: Transporting an object, usually holding it in the hands or arms, or on the shoulder (Occasionally)
• Pushing: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves away from the force (Occasionally)
• Pulling: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves toward the force (includes jerking) (Occasionally)
• Climbing: Ladders, Stairs (Occasionally)
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling (Occasionally)
• Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist (Occasionally)
• Kneeling: Bending the legs at the knees to come to rest on the knee or knees (Occasionally)
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine (Occasionally)
• Crawling: Moving about on the hands and arms in any direction (Occasionally)
• Reaching: Extending hands and arms in any direction (Constantly)
• Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with the hand or hands (Manual Dexterity) (Constantly)
• Fingering: Picking, pinching or otherwise working with the fingers primarily (Finger Dexterity) (Constantly)
• Feeling: Perceiving such attributes of objects/materials as size, shape, temperature, texture, movement or pulsation by receptors in the skin, particularly those of the finger tips (Constantly)
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas/information by means of the spoken word (Frequently)
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sound by the ear (Frequently)
• Tasting/Smelling: (Occasionally)
• Near Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less (Constantly)
• Far Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 feet for more (Frequently)
• Depth Perception: Three-dimensional vision; ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are (Frequently)
• Vision: Color - The ability to identify and distinguish colors (Constantly)

Working Conditions

• Inside environmental conditions.
• Well lighted, climate controlled areas (Constantly)
• Frequent repetitive motion (Constantly)
• CRT (Computer Monitor(s)) (Constantly)

Physical Demands

• Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.
• Standing: Remaining on one's feet in an upright position at a work station without moving about (Occasionally)
• Walking: Moving about on foot (Frequently)
• Sitting: Remaining in a seated position (Constantly)
• Lifting: Raising or lowering an object from one level to another (includes upward pulling) (Occasionally)
• Carrying: Transporting an object, usually holding it in the hands or arms, or on the shoulder (Occasionally)
• Pushing: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves away from the force (Occasionally)
• Pulling: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves toward the force (includes jerking) (Occasionally)
• Climbing: Ladders, Stairs (Occasionally)
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling (Occasionally)
• Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist (Occasionally)
• Kneeling: Bending the legs at the knees to come to rest on the knee or knees (Occasionally)
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine (Occasionally)
• Crawling: Moving about on the hands and arms in any direction (Occasionally)
• Reaching: Extending hands and arms in any direction (Constantly)
• Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with the hand or hands (Manual Dexterity) (Constantly)
• Fingering: Picking, pinching or otherwise working with the fingers primarily (Finger Dexterity) (Constantly)
• Feeling: Perceiving such attributes of objects/materials as size, shape, temperature, texture, movement or pulsation by receptors in the skin, particularly those of the finger tips (Constantly)
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas/information by means of the spoken word (Frequently)
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sound by the ear (Frequently)
• Tasting/Smelling: (Occasionally)
• Near Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less (Constantly)
• Far Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 feet for more (Frequently)
• Depth Perception: Three-dimensional vision; ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are (Frequently)
• Vision: Color - The ability to identify and distinguish colors (Constantly)

Expected Salary Range

$129,000.00 - $193,000.00

OneOK is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, national origin, gender identity, disability, military/veteran status, genetic information or any other categories protected by applicable law. The job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of ONEOK.