Commercial Ops Rep

Western Midstream; Town Center (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Midstream seeks a Commercial Ops Representative for the Midstream scheduling organization at The Woodlands, TX. The role focuses on nominations, balancing the system, and coordinating with field operations to ensure delivery per nominations.

Applicants should have experience in gas/midstream scheduling, strong Excel skills, and the ability to work in a hybrid schedule with on-call responsibilities on evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• Requires self-motivated, hardworking attitude in a high-energy environment.
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Responsibilities

• Interact daily with producers to adjust nominations and mitigate imbalances.
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Skills

Self-motivation

Relationship building

Multi-tasking

Learning mindset

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred in Business/Accounting/Finance or related field

High School Diploma or equivalent required

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Our core assets provide services for customers in the Delaware Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, and the DJ Basin in northeastern Colorado, and the Powder River Basin in Northeast Wyoming. Additional assets and investments are located in South Texas, Utah, and Southwest Wyoming.

We’re engaged in the business of gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and transporting natural gas; gathering, stabilizing and transporting condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil; and gathering, transporting, recycling, treating and disposing of produced water for our customers. In our capacity as a natural gas processor, we also buy and sell natural gas, NGLs, and condensate on our behalf and our customers under certain gas processing contracts.

Western Midstream (WES) is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, WES.

Job Summary:

Western Midstream seeks a Commercial Ops Representative to join the Midstream scheduling organization located in The Woodlands, TX office. The position will focus on midstream scheduling for Western Midstream operated assets.

Required Qualifications:

• Self-motivated and hardworking individual with the willingness/ability to work in a high energy environment
• Ability to develop/maintain critical relationships both internally and externally across diverse stakeholder groups on a 24/7 basis when on duty, including remaining in contact at night, and on weekends as needed.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks and meet short deadlines while demonstrating a commonsense approach to problem solving
• Seeks additional responsibilities as learning progression occurs.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills (including Excel, PowerPoint, & Word)

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in gas/midstream scheduling, accounting, or revenue accounting.

Responsibilities:

• Daily interaction with producers to adjust nominations from wellhead and residue/NGLs/crude markets to mitigate imbalances on WES operated system.
• Balance plant OBAs and monitor TIK shippers’ imbalances on gathering system.
• Monitor and balance NGL allocation on downstream pipes.
• Confirm all daily nomination activity on residue pipelines.
• Monitor Cygnet to ensure field is flowing efficiently and within contractual bounds.
• Work with field operations to make set-point changes to physically deliver according to confirmed nominations.
• Calculate contractual or actual plant shrink, plant fuel, and field fuel.
• Coordinate with WES personnel, working interest owners, production operators, and pipeline personnel on operational issues. Notify downstream marketing of critical upstream and downstream issues prior to morning trading activity whenever possible.
• Coordinate with Commercial Development and manage events impacting our business; new wells, new lines being laid, company divestitures, outages, processing elections, etc.
• Maintain adequate daily and monthly records, inclusive of operational events, force majeure, etc. for audit trail and backup coverage.
• Coordinate with midstream accounting on any billing and reconciliation issues.
• Provide end-of-the-month reports to accounting and customers
• Provide weekly reports to customers.
• Maintain EMK3 system daily.
• Establish and maintain industry contacts and relationships with customers, pipelines, operators, and other working interest owners.
• Cross train with other team members to enable vacation and weekend coverage.
• Provide monthly estimates/availabilities to downstream marketing.
• Commercial Ops will require evening, weekend, and holiday on call duties.
• Provide upper management with reports to reflect actual vs forecasted flows.
• Analysis and suggest ethane rejection or recovery for operated plants by monitoring operations and economics.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business/Accounting/Finance or related field.High School Diploma or equivalent required.

Relocation:

• This position is not eligible for relocation.

Travel Requirements:

• Travel will be required up to 5%.

Work Schedule:

• This position follows a hybrid schedule working in office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and working remote Wednesday and Friday. Monday-Thursday are 9 hours and Fridays are 4 hours. And will require on call / after-hours support as needed.

Western Midstream does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.

Western Midstream is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in recruiting, hiring, developing, compensating and promoting applicants and employees. All employment decisions are made without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employee's and applicant's disabilities or religious beliefs and practices.