Trading Operator

BP Americas, Inc.; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work arrangement

Travel opportunity

Job summary

BP Americas, Inc. seeks a Trading Operator to coordinate the safe and efficient movement of products across pipelines, rail, trucks, barges, and vessels. You will support BP's trading and shipping operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, product quality, and profitability.

The role requires troubleshooting, strong communication across internal and external teams, and a commercial mindset to optimize supply chain decisions. It offers a hybrid work arrangement with travel requirements if needed.

Qualifications

• Experience in oil/gas industry, supply chain, bulk shipping, or product scheduling.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills enabling effective decision making.
• Ability to prioritize and complete tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage across multiple interfaces and stakeholders.
• Willingness to be on call for 24/7 operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage safe, compliant movement of products across multiple transportation modes.
• Learn multiple transportation modes and commodities to support the team.
• Troubleshoot timing, quality, supply, delivery, and weather issues impacting operations.
• Maintain a commercial mindset to optimize profits or reduce costs.
• Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders; ensure financial data accuracy.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Bias for action

On-call readiness

Multi-mode transportation knowledge

Tools

RightAngle software

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!

Job Description

The Trading Operator is integral to the success of the Trading & Shipping organization. Trading & Shipping is an integrator to deliver BP's strategy of resilient hydrocarbons and low carbon energy. The Trading Operator coordinates the safe, efficient, and reliable execution of the physical movements into and out of supply chain networks supporting our refineries, branded customer network, and trading business. The role requires the ability to troubleshoot problems and have a commercial mindset to optimize decisions that improve profitability or lower costs. The Trading Operator must deliver safety and compliance requirements, meet product quality for the deal or regulations, and communicate effectively across internal and external parties. The Trading Operator plays a vital role in moving product between suppliers, refineries, terminals, and customers across all modes of transportation including pipelines, rail, truck, intra terminal movements, barges, and vessels. The successful candidate will work on a specific operations bench but will be expected to develop broad operations skills to be deployed across multiple roles in the team for leave coverage and business needs. This includes learning multiple modes of transportation, commodities, and supply chains.

Essential education, experience and requirements

• Prior oil/gas industry, supply chain, bulk shipping and/or operations experience or any product scheduling experience
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills leading to effective decision making
• Ability to successfully prioritize and complete tasks in fast paced environment
• Ability to manage across multiple interfaces and stakeholders
• Strong bias for action as well as a focus on efficiency and automation
• Ability to be on call as needed due to 24/7 operations
• Legally authorized to work in the USA

Preferred qualifications

• Rail Scheduling experience
• RightAngle software experience
• Ability to build and maintain relationships
• Managing time and pressure in a dynamic environment
• Ability to make a quick decision, sometimes without all the facts
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to proactively manage day to day issues
• Ability to foresee potential problems and engaging others as necessary in resolution
• Commercial acumen aptitude

Key accountabilities

• Manage the safe and compliant movement of products or feedstocks via various modes of transportation.
• Be flexible and willing to learn multiple modes of transportation and commodities to support the team.
• Troubleshoot problems including timing, quality, supply, delivery, weather.
• Deeply understand your supply chain.
• Maintain a commercial mindset to find opportunities to optimize profits or lower costs.
• Develop strong relationships with internal and external team members.
• Maintain accurate data in the system of record.
• Understand your role and provide attention to detail.
• Work closely with back office and front office teams to ensure financial accuracy.
• Identify process efficiencies and support the implementation of change.
• Create a positive environment across operations by sharing ideas and best practices with a One Team approach.

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 strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance

Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote Type

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills

• Ancillary cost management
• Commercial Acumen
• Communication
• Competitor intelligence
• Customer service delivery excellence
• Demurrage
• Developing and implementing strategy
• Influencing
• Inventory Management
• Listening
• Marine assurance
• Mentoring
• Negotiating
• Problem Solving
• Sentiment and Trends
• Shipping/transport
• Supply chain management
• Trade discipline and compliance
• Trading and scheduling operations
• Trading Fundamentals
• Trading knowledge
• Troubleshooting
• Voyage operations

Legal Disclaimer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

We’re an international energy company with global scale, ambitious plans and a team of brilliant people delivering energy to the world, today and tomorrow.