Operations Services Representative

Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Supply & Trading Group

Job Description:

About us

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

About the role

Responsible for supporting the efficient, reliable, and safe execution of the regional supply plan, using basic analytical capabilities to coordinate the effective scheduling of physical movements into and out of supply networks and making efficiency trade-offs.

Natural Gas Schedulers play an integral role in our operational capability at bp. A successful candidate will thrive in our challenging, diverse, and fast paced culture. Because we play and believe in one team, we cultivate an environment where we trust one another, embrace feedback, challenge our norms, and expect sustained high performance.

This position is on the Natural Gas Operations team within Trading & Shipping's Gas and Power Trading Americas (GPTA) and will be located in Houston.

You will work closely with our upstream affiliates (bpx energy and Gulf of America), trading, marketing and origination and other regional operational teams within bp as well as our enabling partners globally.

bp offers a hybrid working environment, allowing employees to work remotely Monday and Friday and in the office Tuesday through Thursday and offers additional pay for coverage on the weekends and U.S. holidays.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure 100% of BP's equity gas available for sale moves to market through accurate and timely communications with operations personnel, outside operators, working interest owners and trade floor staff
• Monitor gas production daily to ensure contractual obligations are met while maximizing BP's value.  This includes thoroughly managing gas imbalances at the wellhead, gathering system and pipeline interconnects
• Maintain the nomination process for gathered and purchased volumes with pipelines, producers, shippers, and processing plants
• Provide monthly flow assurance and imbalance reporting
• Coordinate resolution of any production shortfall/overage to ensure daily flow targets are achieved
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with pipelines, operations, accounting, and commercial staff
• Assist our affiliates with accounting questions regarding wellhead balancing, allocations on shipper statements and ownership changes in wells
• Work closely with Marketing & Origination team with questions regarding their respective area(s)
• Ensure transportation contracts, point purchases/sales and pools are pathed and balanced daily in our ETRM system (Endur)
• Participation in rotational weekend scheduling coverage
• Work across multiple scheduling teams to drive automation, standardization and integration

Essential requirements

• Bachelor's degree or relevant equivalent experience
• Previous industry experience or gas scheduling experience preferred
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• Initiative-taking and independent problem solver
• Skilled in interacting and influencing across a wide range of professional teams

Additional responsibilities

• Manages product supply and demand balances for the defined region, delivering reliable supply and mitigating supply disruptions.
• Executes overall supply chain processes, trading and asset strategies, leading initiatives from definition to execution and identifying efficiencies.
• Ensures product quality and supply reliability incidents are resolved, implementing actions for continuous improvements and opportunities to minimize costs throughout the supply chain.
• Develops and maintains relationships with internal and external collaborators, representing bp’s interests on issues including product specifications and operational flexibility.
• Supports the team to move product out of refining and blending facilities, supplying bp’s sales demand, and executing trading and asset strategies.
• Complies with bp’s Code of Conduct and models bp’s Values & Behaviors.

Why join bp

At BP, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is stre