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The Trader I/II/Sr./Principal is responsible for managing and optimizing a natural gas trading portfolio with a focus on US East market, leveraging detailed market analysis, risk management, and execution of physical and financial transactions. The position requires deep knowledge of US East supply/demand dynamics, pipeline flows, and pricing hubs, along with strong quantitative and analytical skills to make disciplined decisions in fast-moving market conditions. The trader partners closely with risk, operations, and commercial teams to drive profitability while adhering to firm risk limits and compliance standards.
The Trader I/II/Sr/Principal responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Initiate, develop and execute strategies to capture profitable term natural gas trading opportunities within the US East region.
- Monitor and evaluate relevant market conditions, pivoting in/out of trades as necessitated by market conditions.
- Evaluate existing trading processes and collaborate with trading personnel to improve efficiency, transparency and value-added measures.
- Evaluate, execute, and manage short and long-term storage positions across the US East, optimizing around seasonal spreads, and power and industrial load to create incremental value.
- Use experience to develop optimization and trading strategies and direct origination efforts to execute these strategies.
- This role is expected to be able to clearly communicate summaries of relevant market conditions & opportunities upward within the organization.
- Primary responsibility for establishing and executing trading strategies to optimize the value of EQT's contractual pipeline capacity & storage assets.
Required Experience and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Creative/innovative with strong ability to understand market conditions and then translate into profitable results.
- Knowledge and understanding of regional pipeline/storage infrastructure and respective supply and demand composition and working relationships with commercial participants.
- Ability to construct a regional supply & demand model, knowledge of specific pipeline constraints, flows, costs, storage, contracts, end users and scheduling.
- Experience trading physical, futures, swaps, options, storage, index and spreads.
- Ability to meaningfully contribute to the development of natural gas commercial strategies.
- Working relationship with commercial participants (producers/pipelines/utilities/end users/traders).
- Understanding of the calculation of intrinsic & extrinsic values of transportation capacity and storage opportunities.
- Ability to travel up to 10-20% of the time for customer events, industry conferences, and team gatherings.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.
- Masters degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field.
Remote work is being considered for this role excluding the following states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee unless willing to relocate.
Selected incumbent will be placed into the position that best suits their abilities and experience level.
EQT Corporation and its subsidiaries is an Equal Opportunity Employer -- Disabilities/Veterans.
