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.