Gas Supply and Transportation Rep or Sr Gas Supply & Transportation Rep
Job Description
Job Summary
As the Natural Gas Supply & Transportation Representative or Senior Natural Gas Supply & Transportation Representative you will be responsible for ensuring an uninterrupted flow of gas through various transmission regions via daily scheduling and routing on the most economic paths.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Procurement of natural gas supplies, management and optimization of Dominion's natural gas transportation and storage assets in order to support affiliate natural gas needs.
- Execute the purchase or sale of the natural gas commodity, purchase and sell capacity in the capacity release market and execute capacity contracts.
- Identify demand and surpluses of natural gas storage required for affiliate needs.
- Monitor the variables that can influence pricing, quantities, availability and the reliability of fuel sources. Assist in projecting future demand for all affiliates and determine daily system requirements-based affiliate input.
- Provide timely, accurate, volumetric and economic information for analysis and decision making.
- Ensure that all scheduling processes (nominations, confirmations, etc.) take place in a correct and timely manner with regard to counterparty, transmission provider deadlines.
- Maximize the Company's natural gas assets by meeting the affiliate requirements and, through using capacity release and sales of daily excess supplies to mitigate costs to Dominion's portfolios.
- Monitor and communicate plant burns, alert days, and pipeline constraints.
- Serve as the daily interface with interstate pipelines gas control, LDC gas operations, and affiliates to assure the physical delivery of natural gas.
- Work closely with middle and back offices to resolve gas transportation and gas purchase/sale discrepancies.
- Actively participate in monthly closing activities and maintain systems to insure accurate recordkeeping (e.g. Nucleus, TPORT, UDCS, spreadsheets).
- Inputs, verifies and adjusts the daily deals and their associated schedules into the transporting pipeline System.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience
Natural Gas & Supply Transportation Representative: 2-3 years' experience (Note: A related Master's degree can be substituted for one year of experience. A partial year of six months or more will be rounded up to one full year).
Senior Natural Gas & Supply Transportation Representative: 5+ (Note: A related Master's degree can be substituted for one year of experience. A partial year of six months or more will be rounded up to one full year).
Specific knowledge, skills, abilities and experience include:
- Knowledge of physical natural gas fundamentals and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules and regulations as they pertain to the natural gas industry.
- Knowledge of the natural gas market and understanding and knowledge of Experience with the natural gas products that are to be scheduled interstate pipeline nominations, scheduling, and balancing process (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.).
- Familiarity with the transmission grids as they pertain to moving/scheduling natural gas transmission.
- Knowledge of interstate pipeline capacity release for storage, and natural gas transportation.
- Results oriented, good written and verbal communication skills in order to communicate complex technical information.
- Ability to assess the variables of multiple data sources and create recommendations for actions in a dynamic environment.
- Reliability-focused, detailed oriented.
- Good presentation skills required.
Education Requirements
Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education: Bachelor
Preferred Discipline(s): Accounting, Business, Finance
Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above.
Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description
Working Conditions
Other Working Conditions
Shift requirement to work on a rotational shift in order to manage affiliate natural gas needs. The shift requirement is supported by normal office hours supplemented by being readily accessible for a 24-hour period that generally lasts for seven consecutive days.