Job Details

The Principal Trader responsibilities include but are not limited to:

* Initiate, develop and execute strategies to capture profitable term natural gas trading opportunities within a designated region - East, Appalachia, Midwest, or Gulf.

* Monitor and evaluate relevant market conditions, pivoting in/out of trades as necessitated by market conditions.

* Evaluate, execute and manage short-term interruptible & park-and-loan activities with EQT midstream and 3rd party operators to generate incremental revenues.

* Evaluate, execute and manage short- and long-term storage assets with EQT midstream and 3rd party operators to create incremental revenues.

* Evaluate existing trading processes and collaborate with trading personnel to improve efficiency, transparency and value-added measures.

* 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.

* Travel up to 20% of the time.

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.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

* 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.

* Masters degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field.