New 
Methanol Scheduler
 Koch Business Solutions, LP | |
life insurance, parental leave
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 United States, Texas, Houston | |
 Mar 19, 2025 | |
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Your Job
Koch Methanol is seeking candidates to join our team for the Methanol Scheduler role. The Methanol Scheduler plays a vital role in coordinating and optimizing logistics for Koch Methanol's domestic and European position. This position is responsible for liaising with various stakeholders, including customers, commercial teams, terminals, and carriers. The scheduler ensures efficient and timely operations, compliance with exporting/importing formalities, and drives process improvements to enhance profitability and customer satisfaction. Successful candidates will possess knowledge and interest in the marine and land transport industry. Our Team KOCH Methanol LLC KOCH Methanol LLC. is a fast-paced, dynamic, and team-oriented organization. We offer a rewarding and challenging work environment providing solutions and economic based problem solving for our internal and external Methanol partners. What You Will Do * Marine Liaison: * Act as the primary contact with customers to manage schedule needs, in-transit communication, and nominations. * Collaborate with the commercial team to align scheduling with commercial strategies and provide market analysis and optimization recommendations. * Represent KME in process discussions with other KAES capabilities. * Terminal Coordination: * Build and maintain positive relationships with terminals. * Develop communication paths with key contacts at terminals and ensure effective communication. * Carrier and Inventory Management: * Coordinate with carriers, agents, and surveyors to send requirements and process carrier updates. * Manage schedules, runouts, and execution for all terminals. * Discuss inventory positions with terminals and optimize P&L. * Compliance and Documentation: * Lead compliance logistics, ensuring all export/import documentation is accurate and timely. * Maintain communication with loading agents and other parties to verify final draft documents. * Team Leadership and Culture: * Foster a team-oriented culture, encourage knowledge sharing, and ensure backup development to support team members'' time off. * Expectations and Performance Metrics: * Ensure timely and complete shipments, measured by customer and commercial satisfaction. * Drive culture and team mentality, measured by team feedback and morale. * Achieve execution excellence with accurate data and scheduling, measured by terminal and back-office feedback. * Lead timely issue resolution, engaging necessary parties and measured by feedback. * Establish win-win customer relationships, measured by internal and external feedback. * Prioritize tasks appropriately, maintaining a balance of urgency and feedback. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) * Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Logistics, or Supply Chain Management * Experience in marine scheduling or logistics coordination * Experience with marine logistics, compliance regulations, and export/import processes What Will Put You Ahead * Experience with scheduling tools and platforms such as Salesforce * Knowledge of market dynamics and commercial strategies in the chemical or methanol industry * Experience with data analysis and reporting tools like Tableau At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy [1] here. Who We Are As a Koch Ag & Energy Solutions company, Koch Methanol produces and supplies the methanol that has become an essential part of our daily lives - and is a key ingredient in products like clothing, cosmetics, paints, plywood and adhesives - in addition to fueling ships, buses, trucks, fuel cells and cooking stoves. Our goal is to be the preferred supplier of methanol to our customers who depend on us for our reliability and quality of service. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our [2] business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click [3] here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click [4] here, [5] aqui, or [6] tu). References Visible links 1. https://jobs.kochcareers.com/pages/culture 2. https://www.kochind.com/about/business-philosophy 3. https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf 4. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_English.pdf 5. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_Spanish.pdf 6. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_Polish.pdf | |