Trader I/II/Sr./Principal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +8 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee and enhance a natural gas trading portfolio with a focus on the US East market.

• Utilize comprehensive market analysis and risk management to carry out physical and financial transactions.

• Initiate, formulate, and implement strategies to seize profitable term natural gas trading prospects in the US East region.

• Continuously monitor and assess market conditions, adjusting trades as necessary.

• Review trading processes and collaborate with trading teams to boost efficiency, transparency, and value-added initiatives.

• Assess, execute, and manage both short- and long-term storage positions across the US East region.

• Optimize seasonal spreads, power, and industrial loads to enhance incremental value.

• Develop trading and optimization strategies and lead origination efforts for their execution.

• Provide summaries of pertinent market conditions and opportunities to upper management.

• Establish and implement trading strategies to maximize EQT’s contractual pipeline capacity and storage assets.

• Collaborate with risk, operations, and commercial teams while ensuring compliance with firm risk limits and standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a related discipline.

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.

• Strong analytical and quantitative abilities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Capability to interpret market conditions and convert them into profitable outcomes.

• Familiarity with regional pipeline/storage infrastructure, supply and demand dynamics, and relationships with commercial entities.

• Proficiency in constructing a regional supply and demand model.

• Understanding of pipeline constraints, flows, costs, storage, contracts, end users, and scheduling.

• Experience in trading physical, futures, swaps, options, storage, index, and spreads.

• Ability to significantly contribute to natural gas commercial strategies.

• Established relationships with producers, pipelines, utilities, end users, and traders.

• Knowledge of intrinsic and extrinsic values related to transportation capacity and storage opportunities.

• Willingness to travel up to 10–20% of the time.

• Preferred: 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.

• Preferred: A Master’s degree in business, finance, engineering, or a related field.

• Remote work is not applicable to residents of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee unless they are willing to relocate.

🏝️ Benefits

• Transparent Leadership: fostering collaboration and ensuring every voice is valued.

• Connected Impact: visibility into how your work affects critical business decisions and adds value across operations.

• Supported Growth: cross-functional collaboration, opportunities for development, and career advancement.

• Consideration for remote work.

• Chance to participate in customer events, industry conferences, and team gatherings through travel.