Scheduler - Senior

ONEOK is a Fortune 500 company with over 100 years in business, serving as a leading midstream service provider. We prioritize safety, sustainable operations, and environmental responsibility while maintaining a strong focus on our employees.

About the role

ONEOK is seeking an experienced Natural Gas Pipeline Scheduler to join our team in Houston. This role involves handling nominations, confirmations, and scheduling of natural gas volumes for intrastate and interstate pipeline transmission. You will manage volumetric imbalances with end-users, shippers, and pipelines daily in accordance with contractual and system compliance. Strong relationship-building and customer service skills are desired. Quorum and QPTM experience are a plus. This is a hybrid role: in-office Monday through Thursday and remote on 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, but not limited to:
  • Allocations
  • Balancing deliveries
  • Nominations and confirmations
  • Pricing
  • Flow rates/capacity issues
  • Measurement discrepancies
  • Storage balances
  • Electronic bulletin board communications
  • 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 work experience.
• Experience and thorough knowledge of nomination and scheduling of energy product(s) volumes on a pipeline system.
• Experience analyzing and resolving issues related to scheduling, nominations, balancing, and allocations.
• Experience with office equipment, mainframe applications, microcomputers, and applicable software.
• Experience or training in:
  • Product purchase
  • Product control
  • Product accounting
  • Transportation services
  • Volume control
  • Customer service
  • Pipeline Tariffs
  • 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, reports, pipeline postings, storage reports, and electronic bulletin board communications.
• Experience analyzing information, conducting meetings, and making presentations.
• Willingness to adapt to a flexible schedule incorporating evenings, weekends, and holidays as required.

Skills

• Ability to apply basic math, algebra, and statistics.
• Ability to communicate and 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: Remaining on one's feet in an upright position at a workstation 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 (Occasionally).
• Carrying: Transporting an object (Occasionally).
• Pushing/Pulling: Exerting force upon an object (Occasionally).
• Climbing: Ladders, stairs (Occasionally).
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium (Occasionally).
• Stooping/Kneeling/Crouching/Crawling: Bending or moving in various positions (Occasionally).
• Reaching/Handling/Fingering: Extending hands and arms, manual dexterity (Constantly).
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects (e.g., size, shape, temperature) (Constantly).
• Talking/Hearing: Expressing or exchanging ideas and perceiving sound (Frequently).
• Vision:
  • Near Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less (Constantly).
  • Far Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more (Frequently).
  • Depth Perception: Three-dimensional vision (Frequently).
  • Color Vision: Ability to identify and distinguish colors (Constantly).

Working Conditions

• Subject to inside environmental conditions in well-lighted, climate-controlled areas (Constantly).
• Frequent repetitive motion (Constantly).
• Constant use of CRT (Computer Monitor(s)).
• Travel to other locations and driving may be required, potentially involving a company vehicle and applicable driver’s license.

Pay

Expected salary range: $108,000.00 - $162,000.00.