Description:
The Trading Operator plays a vital role in moving product between suppliers, refineries, terminals, and customers across all modes of transportation including pipelines, rail, truck, intra terminal movements, barges, and vessels. The successful candidate will work on a specific operations bench but will be expected to develop broad operations skills to be deployed across multiple roles in the team for leave coverage and business needs. This includes learning multiple modes of transportation, commodities, and supply chains.
Key Accountabilities
- Manage the safe and compliant movement of products or feedstocks via various modes of transportation.
- Be flexible and willing to learn multiple modes of transportation and commodities to support the team.
- Troubleshoot problems including timing, quality, supply, delivery, weather. Deeply understand your supply chain.
- Maintain a commercial mindset to find opportunities to optimize profits or lower costs.
- Develop strong relationships with internal and external partners.
- Maintain accurate data in the system of record. Understand your role and provide attention to detail. Work closely with back office and front office teams to ensure financial accuracy.
- Identify process efficiencies and support the implementation of change.
- Create a positive environment across operations by sharing ideas and best practices with a One Team approach.
Education
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of prior oil/gas industry, supply chain, bulk shipping and/or operations experience or any product scheduling experience
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills leading to effective decision making
- Ability to successfully prioritize and complete tasks in fast paced environment
- Ability to manage across multiple interfaces and partners
- Ability to be on call 24/7 due to nature of operations
- Must be authorized to work in the US