Position Overview:
The Operations Team Lead will be part of the Commercial Operations and Logistics team and sit embedded within their Hydrocarbon team, which is responsible for buying, selling, trading and scheduling deliveries of Hydrocarbons for ATA and engaging in value adding optimization and trading activities. In addition, the Operations Analyst Team Lead will support Aramco Trading Americas’ growing upstream supply growth objectives, as well as global trading business. The Operations Team Lead will report to the Head of Commercial Operations and Logistics.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as team lead with management responsibilities for team-members in their operations analyst team. Team Lead will provide day to day supervision for desks (vacation coordination, training reminders, feedback/instruction for job proficiency, etc.), help manage workload splits for balanced teams, monitor progress during the month for maintaining data accuracy in the relevant systems, be first point of contact for trouble shooting issues.
- Team Leads will be responsible for performing review process with team members, reviewing team metrics, improving processes where needed and aiding in the development of analytical tools to improve proficiency and performance.
- Review trading contracts and ensure operational execution, both by Aramco Trading Americas and the external company
- Understand quality constraints, perform quality blending operations, ensure quality consistency, coordinate sampling for assay/quality verification as required.
- Confirm 3rd party contracts, monitor receipts, pipeline schedules, and convey notifications of apportionment or operational issues.
- Coordinate and manage pipeline nominations, scheduling and reconciliation for hydrocarbon injects deliveries, transshipment, and terminal transfers.
- Coordinate marine activity including FOB liftings, delivered cargoes, vessel vetting, lightering inspections, loss control, custom filings and invoicing.
- Manage terminal inventory records and keep traders informed on supply availability/issues and forward planning.
- Actively assess and manage a range of operational plans and outcomes inherent to the refining / logistics / trading environment and share market insight/intelligence.
- Work closely with mid-office to ensure position and risk exposure is valid in the system of record.
- Work closely with all desks to ensure the validity of volume actualization, receipt reconciliation, settlement, review/validate and confirm for payment invoices associated with pipeline or marine activity
- Develop and maintain strong relationship with internal stakeholders and external counterparty.
- Enter orders and maintain accuracy of data in Aramco Trading Americas Software Systems such as: Navarik, Right Angle and other third-party scheduling systems.
- Available to be on call 24/7
Experience and Qualifications Required:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.
- Experience with petroleum/Hydrocarbon operations
- Three plus years of business experience
- Awareness of refining operations
- Demonstrated ability to be inquisitive, analytical, collaborative, and detail/action oriented while managing complexity and ambiguity.
- Demonstrate ability to be resilient and adaptive in an environment of constant change and challenges.
- Ability to maintain organization of a large quantity of dynamic information and circumstances.
- Must be available to work in an office environment, located in downtown Houston, TX
NO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES ACCEPTED
What We Do
We’re a leading producer of the energy and chemicals that drive global commerce and enhance the daily lives of people around the globe by continuing delivering an uninterrupted supply of energy to the world.
Our resilience and agility has built one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies. And we are part of the global effort toward building a low carbon economy.
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