Pipeline Scheduler, Sr. jobs in Nebraska

Job Description Summary: As a Senior Natural Gas Scheduler, your role will encompass supporting one or many traders engaged in purchases, sales, and transportation of natural gas. Your responsibilities include nominating pipeline EBBs, accurately entering trade deals into the internal systems, investigating any discrepancies in contracts and shipments, and delivering direct customer service to internal and external counterparties.  You will also assist in generating essential reports for the trading desk and coordinating front and mid-office support across all desks.   

 Additionally, you will be responsible for the comprehensive capture of deals in the system, ensuring both timeliness and accuracy. This position requires a robust ability to collaborate effectively with both external parties and internal stakeholders. The ideal candidate will not only demonstrate proficient management skills in handling support functions related to pipeline, storage, and Local Distribution Company (LDC) contracts and rights but will also possess a keen interest and clear potential for career advancement toward a commodity trading role. We are specifically seeking an individual with a strong aspiration to grow into a trading position. For those who excel in this capacity, we offer a defined career path leading toward a role in commodity trading.  

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:  

• Collaborates closely with the scheduling team to ensure all pipeline scheduling is performed quickly and accurately.   
• Communicates with our suppliers and markets to ensure that contractual nomination data is coordinated properly and resolves all discrepancies promptly.   
• Schedules gas on inter/intrastate pipeline EBB systems.   
• Works with suppliers, purchasers, pipelines, and point operators to monitor and minimize imbalances. When imbalances occur, work within pipeline and LDC guidelines to reduce, eliminate, or trade those imbalances in the manner most advantageous to the company.   
• Performs end-of-month closing tasks including actualization of pipes/trades in Allegro. Interacts closely with internal accounting and third parties to help resolve any discrepancies in monthly settlements.   
• Monitors pipeline bulletin boards (EBBs) for both critical and non-critical notices and relays these to the team.   
• Participate in weekend and evening on-call coverage as needed. System of Record (Allegro) subject matter expert for Gas Supply Services processes within the system (deal capture, scheduling, invoice reconciliation, etc.).   
• Manages deal entry and shipment level information processes to allow transparent information to commercial, risk, and accounting.  
• Arranges for delivery of natural gas to and from our respective customers daily.  
• Nominates all contractual data promptly to the applicable receipt and delivery pipelines.  
• Communicates between our suppliers and customers to ensure that contractual nomination data is coordinated throughout the delivery chain  
• Works with trading personnel to ensure that imbalances are minimized by communicating on time when problems arise.  
• Enters all pertinent nomination data into the nomination systems maintained by the applicable pipeline and system operators.  
• Tracks the movement of all physical gas sales and maintains spreadsheets showing the contractual movements of gas.  
• Works with suppliers, purchasers, pipelines, and point operators to monitor and minimize imbalances. When imbalances occur, work within pipeline and LDC guidelines to reduce, eliminate, or trade those imbalances in the manner most advantageous to the company.  
• Review the efficiency of the nomination and accounting activities to ensure those functions are run optimally.  
• Identifies incremental capacity and supply availability which may be acquired by the company cost-effectively and profitably to the company  
• Represents the company at various business meetings and functions conducted by marketers, gas suppliers, and suppliers of pipeline services.  
• Completes special projects as assigned  
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Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Economics, or equivalent education and experience  
• 7 years of commercial natural gas scheduling experience, including experience scheduling on various interstate gas pipelines and LDC systems.  
• Prior negotiation experience preferred  
• Solid understanding of regulatory compliance  
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy  
• Proficient in problem-solving and conflict management  
• Ability to work independently in a multi-project environment  
• Willingness to work extended hours when necessary  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills  
• Demonstrates integrity and upholds ethical standards  
• Dedication to exceptional customer service  
• Strong interpersonal skills and effective team collaboration  
• Intrinsic drive and self-motivation  
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously  
• Effective communication with diverse personalities  
• Demonstrates exemplary judgment, leadership, and team orientation  

Green Plains Inc. offers competitive pay: a generous benefits package including a business casual work environment, health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO), and a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting and company safe harbor matching. All potential employees of Green Plains Inc. must pass a pre-employment drug screening and background check before employment.  

Equal Opportunity Employer  

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.   

Company Description 
Green Plains Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRE) is a leading biorefining company focused on the development and utilization of fermentation, agricultural and biological technologies in the processing of annually renewable crops into sustainable value-added ingredients. This includes the production of cleaner low carbon biofuels, renewable feedstocks for advanced biofuels and high purity alcohols for use in cleaners and disinfectants. Green Plains is an innovative producer of Ultra-High Protein and novel ingredients for animal and aquaculture diets to help satisfy a growing global appetite for sustainable protein.