Scheduler

**Scheduler, Product Movement**

**ABOUT US**

Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc. (TNPI) operates regulated pipelines to safely transport the refined petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, aviation, and heating fuel) used by Canadian businesses and consumers every day. These pipelines connect refineries in Edmonton to Calgary, including the Calgary International Airport; and refineries in Nanticoke, Ont., and Montreal to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), with lateral pipelines to Ottawa as well as to Pearson International Airport and Pierre-Elliot Trudeau International Airport. In operation since the 1950s, we are committed to operating in a safe and environmentally responsible manner to protect the public, the environment, and the pipelines.

**WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?**

TNPI offers a stable, flexible work environment with predictable business growth. The company is backed by three major shareholders who are all Fortune 500 companies and among the oil and gas industry leaders in North America.

TNPI has a culture that supports personal initiative, and is a place where employees have considerable autonomy and ownership of their functions. The flat organizational structure allows for broad mandates and the opportunity to expand your skills and experience, as well as access to decision-makers and senior leadership. The TNPI culture is collegial, values employee input, and supports work/life balance. TNPI achieves operational excellence in four pillars: Safety, Environment, Reliability and People.

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Reporting to the Team Lead, Scheduling, the Scheduler is accountable for the logistics and smooth operation of TNPI’s pipeline according to the Conditions of Transport including, but not limited to, ensuring movement of products on time and to the schedule, to minimize downgrades and to avoid system conflicts. This position co-ordinates supply and schedules the movement of refined product from source shipper to destination meter station on all line segments within TNPI’s Eastern and Western pipeline systems. This position is responsible for coordinating with Field Services, Engineering project teams, and other stakeholders and implementing within existing pipeline schedules all maintenance, repair and integrity activities which can impact pipeline operation. The Scheduler is the primary TNPI contact for shipper’s supply related concerns.

**This position is a safety sensitive and a risk sensitive position and requires you to be always fit for duty

**OEMS**

This position is accountable for ensuring that all aspects of work comply with safe work practices, all applicable codes, standards, regulatory requirements and TNPI’s Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS).

**Security, Environment and Health & Safety**

This job performs their job effectively safely, securely, and in a manner protective of the environment, and complies with TNPI rules and requirements.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Schedule Pipeline Product Movements Based on Master Schedules**
- Ensures pumping rates and volumes meet shipper’s supply and containment constraints.
- Manages breakout tankage inventories by adjustment of scheduled rates and volumes.
- Revises existing schedules to meet changing shipper supply requirements.
- Adjusts schedules to facilitate hydraulic conditions or down time required for pipeline and facility maintenance, repair, and integrity activities.
- Creates and maintains pumping windows to accommodate TN jet movements and outside pipeline deliveries to shared delivery facilities.
- Maintains schedules to meet accepted volumes and time constraints.

**Prepare Master Schedules**
- Allocates available monthly line space, accounting for project and maintenance line time requirements. Creates a master schedule for each pipeline system dividing monthly accepted volume into 5 rateable cycles.
- Administers distribution of unused accepted line space to other shippers on a cycle-by-cycle basis (5 cycles per month)
- Reconciles all shipper firm-ups/nominations considering product source, volumes, and destinations for each schedule (5 per month).
- Calculates adjusted line capacity and issue a monthly volume apportionment to APPL shippers.
- Manages firmed volumes vs monthly accepted volumes ensuring volume rateability through each of the 5 monthly cycles.
- Assesses product fungibility and availability of break out tankage in respect to incurred reductions in pipeline capacity.
- Advise shippers of any required volume reductions to maintain rateability or compensate for incurred capacity reductions.
- Supplies each shipper with a list of individual tender numbers and volumes.

**Communication**
- Discusses schedules changes or shipper supply adjustments to facilitate pipeline or shipper requirements.
- Reconciles supply differences between shippers.
- Maintains strong communication with project and maintenance teams to coordinate timing and product availability for planned and unplanned line outages.
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