Shell Jobs – Commercial Operator

Job Description:

The Commercial Operator/ Natural Gas Scheduler – Northeast is part of the Commercial North America Gas Operations Team responsible for the day-to-day operational management of Shell Energy Americas (SEAm) gas activities in the Northeast markets. The scheduler will provide scheduling and operations support to various business desks across North America.

Job Responsibilities:

• Know and understand of the various balancing mechanisms in use across North America regarding imbalance tolerances and the financial cash out risks for shippers and traders
• Knowledge in a pipeline’s tariff general terms and conditions
• Coordinate the daily product movement for SEAm and agency customers including equity gas production, purchases, sales, transportation, storage on both interstate and intrastate pipelines via electronic bulletin boards while ensuring contract obligations and regulatory requirements are met
• Work with limited supervision to troubleshoot, resolve problems
• Strict compliance with FERC Shipper Must Hold Title, Dodd Frank Bookout requirements and understanding of the buy/sell capacity release rules
• Understand how a pipeline calculates and uses cash out indices
• Build and maintain trusted partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Perform monthly close activities on top 10 pipelines to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Report physical pipeline positions to SEAm trading groups
• Highly proficient in the knowledge and use of SEAm internal gas management system to troubleshoot issues from deal entry to invoicing
• Focal Point for elevated issue resolution in absence of supervisor
• Manage and balance pipeline and customer accounts
• Foster and maintain strong working relationships with teammates
• Monitor and report pipeline operational information providing short term opportunities to trading due to pipeline constraints and operations
• Train and Provide back up support to other schedulers within own team and across NA teams
• Input operational information daily into SEAm internal gas management system (Endur) for accurate P&L and a clean hand off at month end
• Execute complex transport – segmentation and meter bounces
• Schedule accurate nominations meeting all deadlines throughout the day
• Maintains a thorough understanding of all contractual, license and regulatory requirements

Job Requirements:

• Support retail gas business
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize, and meet strict time sensitive deadlines
• Knowledge of LEAN practices and continuous improvement would be preferred; ability to suggest and implement process changes and new procedures
• Minimum of 3 or more years working experience of natural gas scheduling experience with experience in scheduling Algonquin, Empire, Iroquois, Tennessee Z1-Z6, Transco Z1-Z6, Texas Eastern, Columbia Gas, Millennium, Iroquois, National Fuel, Dominion Cove, and Dominion Transmission
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing internal and external requirements
• Commercial mindset and ability to work effectively with trade desk in transport optimization, segmentation of pipeline capacity and realization of incremental value through commercial operational decisions
• Knowledge of the Mid-Atlantic and NE LDC’s
• Continuous Improvement
• Commercially adept with demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements for Natural Gas Scheduling preferred
• SQL skills knowledge a plus
• Effective communicator, with highly developed interpersonal skills
• Advanced Knowledge of equity production supply, gathering lines, processing plants and downstream optionality
• Advanced Excel User with knowledge of formulas, look-ups, linking, pivot tables and macros
• Proven track record of performance and delivery
• Champions continuous improvements (CI) by proactively supporting the forward plan for maintaining and improving systems, tools, data and processes as well as sharing best practices
• Currently must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.
• Knowledge of internal system; Endur or G-motion experience preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Very strong attention to detail
• Ability to analyses market information, communicate and act on trading implications

Job Details:

Company: Shell

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Beaumont, TX, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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