What are the responsibilities and job description for the Integrated Operations Planning (IOPS) Coordinator 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.
Our core assets provide services for customers in the Delaware Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, and the DJ Basin in northeastern Colorado. Additional assets and investments are located in South Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Job Summary:
WES is seeking a qualified individual to join the Integrated Operations Planning (IOPS) Team as an IOPS Coordinator. This role plays a critical leadership function in the planning, coordination, and optimization of projects across all of WES's assets. The successful candidate will lead efforts to ensure smooth integration of new production into WES’s oil, gas, and water gathering systems while also helping to de-bottleneck existing assets to increase throughput and reduce downtime.
Although categorized as an individual contributor role due to the lack of direct reports, the IOP Coordinator is a key leadership position within the company, requiring strong peer leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and technical and organizational excellence.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience supporting oil, gas, and water surface operations
- Experience in oil and gas gathering operations, with understanding of system flows and interactions
- Experience managing well connect projects, gathering pipeline projects, and field gathering facilities (e.g., compressor stations, pump stations, SWDs).
- Familiarity with project management methodologies and best practices, including Waterfall and Agile frameworks
- Working knowledge of industry codes, standards, and regulations, including environmental and safety compliance
- Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications, as well as Visio, Teams and familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform products
- Desired proficiency with OSI PI, Spotfire, or SEEQ data analysis tools.
Responsibilities:
- Exhibit WES’s core values: Partnership, Customer Focus, Resourcefulness and Performance
- Lead recurring project alignment efforts to minimize downtime and create operational synergies across assets
- Coordinate outages and major project activities, including pipeline repairs and plant maintenance/turnarounds
- Collaborate with multiple internal teams, including Engineering & Construction, Infrastructure Planning, Process Optimization Engineering, Plant Operations, Field Operations, Commercial & Commercial Operations, Measurement, Automation, Asset Integrity, Maintenance & Scheduling and the Remote Operations Center (ROC)
- Facilitate meetings to ensure awareness and alignment of project timing and readiness for new production volumes (e.g., pipeline and meter readiness, booster installations, DRA skids, valve alignments, pigging, acid jobs, automation, and ROC SCADA visibility)
- Support field issue analysis and resolution related to throughput and system performance
- Oversee the Project Tracking Tool, Power BI reporting, and related data systems, ensuring accuracy, adoption, and user training
- Act as the operational liaison between WES and WES's customers, providing timely notifications and updates on planned downtime, operational upsets, system conditions and bringing the voice of the customer back into WES operational teams
- Lead initiatives for process development and improvement, with particular focus on driving better operational efficiencies, communication and data-driven decision making
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering required; Chemical, Mechanical, or Petroleum Engineering preferred
Travel Requirements:
- Up to 25% travel outside the greater Houston area
- This is a hybrid position that will work 9 hours Monday – Thursday and 4 hours on Friday
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.
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