Valero Energy

Sr. Scheduler - Commercial Supply & Trading

Valero Energy • $90K — $120K *
San Antonio, TX 78228In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
2 weeks ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 5+ years of experience in logistics, transportation, or oil & gas sectors
  • Willingness to manage operations 24/7, including holidays
  • Onsite work required at Valero San Antonio headquarters

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate product movements using various transport methods
  • Manage inventory positions according to market and logistics constraints
  • Communicate and collaborate with multiple departments for scheduling
  • Nominate and document movements in SAP
  • Adjust schedules proactively to accommodate shifts in objectives
  • Accrue and track costs accurately in SAP
  • Guide junior schedulers and provide backup support

Benefits

  • Competitive Pay and Annual Bonus Program
  • 100% match on 401(K) up to 7%, with immediate vesting
  • Company-sponsored Pension Plan
  • Comprehensive Healthcare and Wellness Programs
  • Onsite Daycare Center
  • Onsite Wellness Centers with physician services
  • State-of-the-art 24-hour Fitness Center
  • Onsite cafeteria serving breakfast and lunch
  • Access to walking paths and biking trails
Full Job Description
Description

As a Sr. Scheduler within the Commercial Supply & Trading department, you will coordinate product movements via barge, pipeline, truck, ship or rail and ensure correct type, quantity and timing of the load/unload activity.

  • Manage appropriate inventory positions that balance the existing market conditions, wholesale forecasts, production schedules, and logistics constraints to keep terminals adequately supplied and refineries balanced.
  • Communicate with traders, refinery personnel, wholesale, terminal operators, and logistics operators to develop a schedule.
  • Nominate and support actualizing and documenting movements in SAP
  • Proactively adjust the schedule when conflicting objectives disrupt planned movements
  • Understand contractual requirements and manage secondary costs to move products in the most cost-efficient manner.
  • Accruesand track secondary costs accurately in SAP.
  • Provide guidance to less experienced Schedulers and provide back-up support to other Schedulers, as needed.


Scheduler duties may be performed in one of the following departments:

Scheduler- Marine:

  • Participates in the execution of all activities involved in the operations and scheduling of ocean vessels operating on behalf of the Company
    Schedules product movements via barge or ship and ensures correct type, quantity, and timing of the load/unload activity
    Monitors trading cargoes and works closely with all parties involved in vessel operations and regulatory agencies on a worldwide basis


Scheduler- Products & Crude/Feedstock:

  • Schedules deliveries via barges, pipelines, and other distribution methods, issues movement orders, and maintains inventory positions for assigned areas by balancing market demand and sales with available supply
  • Manages appropriate inventory positions that balance the existing market conditions, wholesale forecasts, production schedules, and logistics constraints to keep terminals adequately supplied and refineries balanced


Scheduler- Rail:

  • Schedules product movements via rail and ensures correct type, quantity, and timing of the load/unload activity
  • Optimizes turnaround on reconciling freight/transportation invoices, dispatches truck carriers for product delivery, provides customer support, and resolves any logistical requirements for product and cost savings efficiencies to further maximize Valero's profitability


This position is salaried exempt status, which means you are not eligible for overtime pay.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas required: Logistics, Transportation (all means), Business/Financial Analysis, Marine Operations, Military, Oil & Gas/Refining/Petrochemical Industry.
  • Able and willing to manage assigned operations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays as needed, required.
  • Able and willing to work onsite and in-person on a full-time basis at the Valero San Antonio headquarters, required.


Preferred Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in industrial distribution, energy management, business, finance, accounting, math, marine, science or engineering preferred.
  • Prior experience in at least one of the following roles preferred: Scheduling (Crude, Products, Rail, Marine), Business Analysis (Crude, Products, Allocation, Wholesale Pricing, Trading Risk, Transportation, Transfer Pricing, Wholesale, Commercial Logistics Contract), Trading Analysis, or Commercial Analysis


Need more reasons to work for a company that is both professionally challenging and culturally rewarding? Take a look at some of our best-in-class benefits:

  • Competitive Pay and Annual Bonus Program
  • 100% match on 401(K) up to 7%, with immediate vesting
  • Company-sponsored Pension Plan
  • Comprehensive Healthcare and Wellness Programs
  • Onsite Daycare Center
  • Onsite Employee and Family Wellness Centers (Physician & Pediatrician)
  • Onsite Pharmacy
  • State-of-the-art 24-hour Fitness Center free for employees and spouses with access to Tennis and Basketball Facilities
  • Onsite cafeteria open for breakfast and lunch
  • Sprawling campus with walking paths and access to biking trails


Benefits described above are highlights only, subject to an employee's eligibility and work location.

All successful candidates must be eligible to obtain a TWIC card (Transportation Worker Identification Credential). It is Valero's policy that employees must wear this card at all times while working at the refinery. Please review eligibility criteria at https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic.

Position level and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Please be advised, if you are viewing this position on a website that lists an estimated salary rate/range, it was not provided by Valero. Valero's market specific salary rate/range will be provided during the recruiting process and tends to be higher than what is estimated by such websites.

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About Valero Energy

Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is a Fortune 500 oil and gas refining and retail company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company owns and operates 18 refineries throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3.3 million barrels per day, making it the largest refiner in North America. Valero is also one of the nation's largest retail operators with more than 5,000 retail and branded wholesale outlets in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean under various brand names, including Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Ultramar, Shamrock, and Beacon. Valero Energy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, is an international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products and power. Valero subsidiaries employ approximately 10,500 people, and assets include 16 petroleum refineries with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3 million barrels per day, 10 ethanol plants with a combined production capacity of 1.2 billion gallons per year, and a 50-megawatt wind farm. More than 7,300 outlets carry the Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock and Beacon brands in the United States and the Caribbean; Ultramar in Canada; and Texaco in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Valero is a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio.

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Learn more about Valero Energy
Size
9,813 employees
Market Cap
$46.8 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Net Income
-$1.4 billion
Founded
1980
5 Year Trend
+8.5%
Revenue
$64.9 billion
NASDAQ
VLO
* Ladders Estimates

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