Scheduler, California Fuel Oil

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The California Fuel Oil Scheduler will safely and effectively work with internal and external customers to manage fuel oil logistics from origin to end customer.  This will include working with refineries, traders, logistics providers, terminals, and customers. The role also includes supporting blending activities and executing blends as required for trading. This position is the coordination hub to ensure California fuel oil value is maximized for Phillips 66.

The position is based in our Houston, TX office.

Responsibilities May Include:

• Managing logistics for fuel oil transportation from refineries or terminals directly to customers.
• Ensuring safe, timely deliveries by monitoring and analyzing the availability of barges, on-site and off-site storage, supply point options, delivery time requirements, schedule availability, traffic and weather conditions.
• Executing blending activities with a terminal or refinery; will be expected to develop a basic understanding of fuel oil blending and blending components to support the trader’s blending strategy.
• Working closely with traders to optimize movements and blends to capture the highest value.
• Coordinating internally with Position Keepers, Movement Capture, Inventory Accounting, F&PA Analysts, and other internal stakeholders to ensure accurate deal movement capture and financial reporting as timely as possible.
• Fostering strong working relationships with external counterparts that distinguish Phillips 66 as an industry leader in integrity, scheduling excellence, and professionalism
• Developing nominations for waterborne movements and seeking vetting approval from Marine.
• Coordinating inspectors and ensuring specification and quantity measurement requirements are met and reconcile any sharing of costs between counterparties.
• Performing loss control oversight and escalating issues as needed.
• Entering movements into SAP, Navarik, Mainstay, and other 3rd party systems accurately and on time as applicable.
• Addressing back office issues, including timely response to DEWs, as required.
• 24-hour on-call availability for changes to schedules and emergencies.
• Thinking strategically with the ability to anticipate problems and work to provide resolutions.

Required Qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• HIgh school diploma or GED equivalent
• 5 years of scheduling or logistics work experience
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Able to work remotely via cellphone and/or laptop 24/7
• Able to work extended and non-standard hours

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 or more years experience working in scheduling, logistics, transportation, and/or customer service
• Experience with SAP, Navarik, or Mainstay applications
• Good understanding of downstream operations and value drivers
• Ability to set, manage, and meet multiple and competing priorities
• Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills with the ability to communicate effectively
• Highly ethical with a personal drive and dedication to achieve team goals and to increase general interest value to the company while supporting internal and external customers

The Commercial organization  works to effectively leverage assets and market knowledge to create additional value within the risk parameters of the Company. We do this by maximizing general interest profitability, enhancing return on capital employed by successfully partnering with the Refining, Transportation and Marketing functions to ensure Value Chain Integration.   Our truck and rail fleets support our feedstock and distribution operations.  Rail movements are provided via a fleet of more than 10,000 owned and leased rail cars. Truck movements are provided through numerous third-party trucking companies, as well as through our 100 percent-owned subsidiary, Sentinel Transportation LLC.

Total Rewards

At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being — physical, emotional, social, and financial — is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results — personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:

• Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
• 8% 401k company match
• Cash Balance Account pension
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
• Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services

Learn more about Phillips 66 Total Rewards.

Phillips 66 has more than 140 years of experience in providing the energy that enables people to dream bigger and go farther, faster. We are committed to improving lives, and that is our promise to our employees and our communities. We are sustained by the backgrounds and experiences of our diverse teams, which reflect who we are, the environment we create and how we work together. We have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Department of Labor and the Military Times for our continued commitment to inclusive practices and policies in the hiring and retention of those in the LGBTQ+ community and military veterans. Our company is built on values of safety, honor and commitment. We call our cultural mindset Our Energy in Action, which we define through four simple, intuitive behaviors: We work for the greater good, create an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and achieve excellence.

Learn more about Phillips 66 and how we are working to meet the world's energy needs today and tomorrow, by visiting phillips66.com. 

To be considered:

In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 12/03/2024.

Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1).  Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.