Scheduler I

About the role

ONEOK is seeking an experienced Natural Gas Pipeline Scheduler to join our Tulsa-based team. This hybrid role focuses on nominations, confirmations, and scheduling of natural gas volumes for intrastate and interstate pipeline transmission. The position manages volumetric imbalances with end-users, shippers, and pipelines daily in accordance with contractual and system compliance, emphasizing strong relationships and excellent customer service. Quorum and QPTM experience are a plus. The ideal candidate should be adaptable to a flexible schedule incorporating evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Hybrid schedule: Office – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; Remote – Friday.

Responsibilities

• Initiate, schedule, review, and monitor daily nominations to maintain pipeline integrity by minimizing Operational Balance Agreement (OBA) and shipper or customer imbalances.
• Coordinate with traders regarding overall daily scheduling and balancing positions on interstate and intrastate pipelines; report any problems to traders regarding flow of product(s).
• Interact with gas control representatives, customers, operators, producers, pipeline companies, and others concerning nominations, allocations, billing, imbalances, daily flow, and operational orders.
• Calculate, prepare, and analyze information or reports including allocations, balancing deliveries, nominations and confirmations, pricing, flow rates/capacity issues, measurement discrepancies, storage balances, electronic bulletin board communications, and Actual Usage – Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, business administration, or accounting with job-related experience, or equivalent formal education (e.g., courses in accounting, business law, business communications, algebra, basic statistics, or speech) combined with relevant knowledge or experience.
• Experience and thorough knowledge of nomination and scheduling of energy product(s) volumes on a pipeline system.
• Experience analyzing and resolving issues and/or questions concerning scheduling, nominations, balancing, and allocations.
• Experience with office equipment, including mainframe applications, microcomputers, and applicable software.
• Experience and/or training related to product purchase, product control, product accounting, transportation services, volume control, customer service, pipeline tariffs, and product distribution.
• Experience reading and interpreting contracts, agreements, reports, statements, invoices, confirmations, correspondence, tariffs, government regulations, industry standards, electronic bulletin board communications, and company policies and procedures.
• Experience composing and preparing balancing reports, volume summaries, confirmations, pipeline postings, storage reports, and electronic bulletin board communications.
• Experience analyzing information, conducting meetings, and making presentations.

Skills

• Ability to apply basic math, algebra, and statistics.
• Ability to communicate and/or exchange written and verbal information or instructions.

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 include walking or standing for brief periods.
• Standing: Occasionally
• Walking: Frequently
• Sitting: Constantly
• Lifting: Occasionally
• Carrying: Occasionally
• Pushing: Occasionally
• Pulling: Occasionally
• Climbing (ladders, stairs): Occasionally
• Balancing: Occasionally
• Stooping: Occasionally
• Kneeling: Occasionally
• Crouching: Occasionally
• Crawling: Occasionally
• Reaching: Constantly
• Handling (manual dexterity): Constantly
• Fingering (finger dexterity): Constantly
• Feeling: Constantly
• Talking: Frequently
• Hearing: Frequently
• Tasting/Smelling: Occasionally
• Near Vision: Constantly
• Far Vision: Frequently
• Depth Perception: Frequently
• Color Vision: Constantly

Working Conditions

• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Well-lighted, climate-controlled areas: Constantly
• Frequent repetitive motion: Constantly
• CRT (Computer Monitor(s)): Constantly
• Travel upon request; driving may be required (applicable driver's license needed).

Pay

Expected salary range: $67,000.00 – $101,000.00.