What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Ops Analyst position at Western Midstream?
Western Midstream is a master limited partnership formed to own, develop, acquire, and operate midstream assets. We are 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, and disposing of produced water for our customers.
We operate or own equity interests in assets in the Rocky Mountains, North-central Pennsylvania, and Texas, including approximately 16,000 miles of petroleum and natural gas pipelines and over 100 gathering, treating, and processing facilities.
Job Summary:
Western Midstream seeks a Commercial Ops Analyst to join the Midstream scheduling organization located in the The Woodlands, TX office. The position will focus on midstream scheduling for Western Midstream operated assets.
Required Qualifications:
- A minimum of 2-5 years of related professional work experience
- Self-motivated and hardworking individual
- Strong analytical and communication skills; comfortable dealing with peers and management
- Establishes and maintains effective relationships with peers
- Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks and meet short deadlines
- Willing to work after hours and weekend on call
- Seeks additional responsibilities as learning progression occurs
- Good problem solving and time management skills
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in gas scheduling, midstream accounting, or revenue accounting.
Responsibilities:
- Daily interaction with producers to adjust nominations from wellhead and residue/ngls 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 Midstream 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 and working interest owners prior to bidweek.
- 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 will work 9 hours Monday – Thursday and 4 hours on Friday. The position will rotate weekly between working from home and the office.
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.