Lead Area Scheduler

Lead Area Scheduler

Job title Lead Area Scheduler
Req ID 25048BR
Job category Operations
Sub-category Operations & Maintenance
Countries (State/Region) United States - Texas
Location Houston
Role synopsis - For one or more operational Areas (physical operating locations) produce and manage a high quality integrated activity schedule which supports safe, reliable operations.
- Optimise the integrated Area schedule to minimise risk, confirm/ensure deliverability and maximise value.
- Recommend which activities to execute or reschedule when the full activity set falls outside Area scheduling constraints.
- Ensure that schedule change conforms with Activity Planning management of change guidelines
- Provide primary liaison between the AP Systems & Tools team and the AP Area scheduling team.
- Build and sustain scheduling capability to support the Area.
- Recommend development of Area and Site Schedulers.
Key accountabilities Scheduling "Right Hand" to the Area Operations Manager and their leadership team.
- Drive value through integration of functional discipline activities with ongoing area activities across the 8Q and 12/6-week time horizons.
- Ensure the Area schedule is fully deliverable within Area resource and scheduling constraints.
- Support the Area Operations manager in understanding the long-term activity plans for the Area and the schedule for activity delivery
- Liaise and cooperate with AP Functional Leads/Schedulers and functional discipline staff to support the optimization of functional schedules and delivery of functional activities.
- Ensure that all activities are ready for execution by meeting the appropriate scheduling gate readiness criteria established by the Region Activity Planning group

Chair the Area 8-Quarter and 12-week Scheduling Meetings
- Identify and discuss any activities that present risk to safe and efficient delivery of the Area schedule.
- Identify and resolve cross-functional schedule conflicts
- Manage the review and inclusion of emergent work into the Area schedule.
- Ensure that Schedule Waiver Requests and Plan Change Proposals follow Regional Activity Planning guidelines
Owner of the Area's Scheduling Processes
- Ensure that all Area scheduling processes conform to Upstream and Region Activity Planning standards.
- Provide leadership to Area and Site Schedulers
- Build organizational scheduling capability to deliver continued value to the Area.
- Communicate to key stakeholders as required to ensure optimised, safe and effective delivery of activity outcomes.

Lead AP Systems & Tools User
- Drive the implementation of standard AP Systems & Tools processes across the Area.
- Provide review and confirmation of all changes that affect the Area or its scheduling processes.
- Support the Systems & Tools team in development and delivery of Area systems, tools and training material.

Drive site execution efficiency
- Monitor Activity Planning Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and identify functional and Area improvement opportunities.
- Drive Continuous Improvement (CI) of Region processes that impact Area scheduling processes.
Essential Education - High school diploma or GED required
Essential experience and job requirements Multiple years experience in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry.
Planning & Scheduling
- Understanding and experience with planning and scheduling concepts.
- Understanding and experience in schedule integration across multiple groups and multiple time horizons.

Technical
- Working knowledge of planning and scheduling tools.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Management and Interpersonal
- Strong organization, negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels and build sustainable beneficial
relationships
- Experience in leading or coordinating small teams.
- Personal understanding and commitment to HSSE.
- Demonstrated success working in high performance environments.
- Bias for action; takes action before being asked or forced by events; anticipates future situations and plans ahead to meet challenges.
- Proven ability to plan and schedule within constraints and recognize/ resolve conflicts.
Desirable criteria & qualifications - Experience in the use of Primavera scheduling software
- Experience with resource allocation analysis and levelling.
- Broad operations and/or projects experience
- BS engineering or operations management degree
Relocation available Yes - Domestic (In country) only
Travel required Yes - up to 10%
Is this a part time position? No
About BP Our business is the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. This is what we do, and we do it on a truly global scale. With a workforce of 80,000 employees, BP operates with business activities and customers in more than 80 countries across six continents. Every day, we serve millions of customers around the world. We are continually looking for talented, committed and ambitious people to help us shape the face of energy for the future.

BP's Upstream segment focuses on finding reserves of oil and gas, developing the means to extract and process it and then consistently producing and transporting it to market. This involves using cutting edge technology to find the energy reserves, the ability to drill thousands of meters under the ground, designing, building and operating some of the world's largest most complex production onshore / offshore facilities and finally being able to transport these fluids, in order to provide energy to the world.

BP is the largest operator (excluding National Oil Companies) in the world with over 6.6MM BOE/Day gross operated production and operations in 25 countries on six continents. The largest community in BP's Upstream Segment, around 6000 people work in operations, essentially delivering oil and gas from the wellhead to the market. Operations staff play a significant role at all stages of the exploration and production cycle - providing input to a project from early appraisal all the way through to full production.
Disclaimer If you are selected for the position, your employment will be contingent upon submission to and successful completion of a post-offer/pre-placement drug test (and alcohol screening if required by the role) as well as pre-placement verification of the information and qualifications provided during the selection process.BP is an equal opportunity employer.
Removal Time 23:59 (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Removal Date 15-Dec-2011