Natural Gas Scheduler

Main Purpose:

Coordinates and optimizes all aspects of the post-deal trading activity to ensure contracts are performed smoothly. Provides commercial/market information to the trading bench as necessary.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

- Ability to work independently and to optimally communicate, negotiate and advise various commercial, accounting, analytics, and operating teams.

- Reconcile storage activity and handle OBAs and balancing agreements, ensuring accurate tracking of storage and PAL balances.

- Ensure accurate capture of commercial transactions, including book-outs and purchase/sale confirmations in pipeline systems.

- Execute daily nominations via pipeline EBBs and proprietary/third-party systems for various U.S. pipelines

- Monitor intraday cuts and restrictions and communicate impacts to the trading desk in real time.

- Ensure all operational costs (e.g., fuel, imbalance, transport) are tracked and reported accurately.

- Provide market information (i.e. constraints) to the trader as necessary and assist in intra-day/intra month capacity optimization

- Participate, and be a key member in the daily commercial decision making on the desk.

- Ensure ETRM is updated regularly with best available information. Validate and report next day and intraday positions to traders.

- Must be willing to work after hours, on-call rotations, nights, weekend shifts and holidays as required

- Establish and maintain good working relationships with scheduling counterparts.

- Provide support to the Settlements team to ensure timely invoicing.

- Ability to work in a fast-pace environment and meet daily required deadlines.

- Strong interpersonal skills and numeral literacy are very important

- Regularly suggest ideas to improve processes and work with IT developers to implement.

- Adhere to Trafigura’s Code of Conduct, HSEC Policy and Business Principles.

- Assist the desk Team Lead developing and training the juniors members of the team, ensuring that each individual has the correct technical skills for their role.

Preferred Qualifications

- Minimum 2 years of experience on Natural Gas operations.

- Able to interpret the operational requirements and financial impacts of transport contracts.  Understands the basic legal framework supporting natural gas pipeline contracts, pipeline tariffs and regulatory agencies (FERC & RRC)

- Understanding of pipelines operations and terminology.

- Able to perform duties under minimal direction.

- Able to thrive and engage in a multifaceted and team-oriented environment and be part of the daily exchange of opinions/ideas between operations and trading.

- Experience in Natural Gas pipelines in the United States, preferable in Texas, South East, North East or Mid-Con areas.

- Ability to leverage relationships and respond inventively when faced with challenges and generate effective, safe and ethical solutions based on available information.

- Allegro experience is a plus.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Reports to the Regional Operations Manager in Houston.