What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Ops Rep position at Western Midstream?
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
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
- 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 weekends on call.
- Seeks additional responsibilities as learning progression occurs.
- Good problem solving and time management skills.
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience in gas scheduling, midstream accounting, or revenue accounting.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business/Accounting/Finance or related field. High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- This position is not eligible for relocation.
- Travel will be required up to 5%.
- 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.