Scheduler

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

The Scheduler,  will work in an open, fast-paced environment with a team of Schedulers and Traders in Houston to optimize crude oil supply throughout Phillips 66’s refining system and commercial businesses. We are seeking a talented, results oriented individual who strives for excellence and sees every day as an opportunity for personal and professional growth. Attention to detail and accuracy is critical. This position is based in our Houston, TX HQ office location and will be scheduling for Beaumont, TX.
 
Responsibilities May Include

• Accountable for coordinating crude oil logistics related to refinery supply, lease, and discretionary trading for Phillips 66.
• Schedules, nominates, and confirms movements via various distribution channels through internal and third-party scheduling systems for pipelines, tanks, rail, waterborne and other modes of transportation.
• Prepare and maintain daily the monthly supply/demand balance and lease forecasts required to plan around the supply, markets and pipelines disruptions and provide updates on positions and respond to unexpected events making contingency plans to minimize disruption to supply or movements.
• Help create value by optimizing supply/demand portfolio, batch trading while increasing transportation efficiency and minimizing per-barrel transportation costs.
• Confirm, manage, and update daily supply demand with trader and schedulers deal tickets.
• Ensure accounting is complete for all crude movements.
• Act as a liaison between accounting/billing personnel and traders: aid in the resolution of price discrepancies, contract issues, payment terms, volume differences, etc.
• Manage, update, and tie out SAP with crude oil movements from nominations to shipper Balance actuals.
• Principle contact for Scheduling for back-office SAP requests, handing requests in a timely manner to ensure accurate settlement.
• Prepare, confirm, and submit weekly system inventory levels vs targets for Supply and Trading business.
• Undertake appropriate apportionment calculations to ensure accurate positions.
• Prepare and maintain internal reports.
• Establish and maintain internal and external industry relationships. 
• Provide backup to other schedulers.
• Provide on-call support and be available to react to dynamic operations, at times outside of core business hours. 

 
Required Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's Degree
• 1 year or more experience in the energy sector supporting supply, trading, or logistical functions
• Proficient Microsoft Office Suite skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Existing knowledge of US crude oil logistics
• 3 years or more experience in the energy sector supporting supply, trading, or logistical functions
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to support business focused analysis and decisions
• Excel Macro building proficiency and advanced Excel preferred
• Background using systems such as SAP, Alteryx, Tableau
• Strong organizational and time management skills that will contribute to meeting daily and monthly deadlines
• Excellent team player
• Strong work ethic – driven for results and continuous improvement
• Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to adapt to changing situations while handling competing demands
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple assignments which are broad in scope and complexity
• Exhibit initiative to continually develop skills and to enhance functional knowledge
• Attention to detail and timeliness
• Good understanding of downstream operations, supply chains and value drivers
• High degree of ethics, personal drive, and dedication to achieve team goals, increase general interest value to the company and support internal and external customer.
• A self-starter showing initiative, thinking outside the box, generating ideas, and driving improvements in multiple aspects of the P66 business

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 12/27/2024.

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.