Trader I/II/Sr./Principal

Summary

EQT Corporation is seeking a Trader I/II/Senior/Principal to manage and optimize a natural gas trading portfolio focused on the US East market. The role involves market analysis, risk management, physical and financial transaction execution, storage and pipeline capacity optimization, and collaboration with risk, operations, and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• 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

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
• 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination
• Masters degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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

Nice to Haves

• 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination
• Masters degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field

Benefits

• Opportunities to expand your skills through cross-functional collaboration and development opportunities
• Career advancement
• Remote work is being considered for this role excluding California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee unless willing to relocate