Gas & Fuel Supply Lead - Power Generation

SB Energy is a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, delivering reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure across the United States. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center projects, with more than 3 GW in operation and a multi‑GW pipeline of future projects.

About the role

The Gas & Fuel Supply Lead will support and drive strategy, development, contracting, and readiness of natural‑gas supply and transportation arrangements required to support reliable and economic operation of Ohio‑Powered Land gas‑fired generation assets. This position reports to the Project Director, Development & Integration and works closely with Commercial & Offtake.

Responsibilities

• Support and develop an integrated fuel‑supply strategy, demand forecast, reliability criteria, contingency plan, and commercial roadmap for development and operations.
• Provide assessment of upstream supply, interstate and intrastate pipeline transportation, lateral and interconnect options, capacity availability, pressure/quality requirements, storage, balancing, and redundancy.
• Lead or support requests for proposals, commercial evaluations, negotiations, and execution of gas supply, transportation, interconnection, balancing, and related agreements.
• Coordinate fuel assumptions and facility requirements with generation technology selection, heat‑rate modeling, dispatch profiles, air permitting, site layout, pipeline engineering, schedule, and project economics.
• Manage relationships with producers, marketers, pipeline companies, utilities, consultants, counsel, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Identify basis, congestion, curtailment, credit, capacity, construction, regulatory, force‑majeure, and operational risks and recommend mitigations.
• Track pipeline/lateral development, metering and regulation facilities, permits, easements, procurement, construction, testing, nominations readiness, and first‑gas milestones.
• Review and develop fuel budgets, forecasts, decision materials, and contract‑compliance processes; support lender, investor, customer, and internal diligence.
• Plan the transition of fuel scheduling, nominations, imbalance management, settlement, and emergency procedures to the operating organization.
• Confirm target pipelines, lateral/interconnect ownership model, firm capacity requirements, dual‑fuel or backup‑fuel scope, and operating dispatch assumptions.
• Confirm commercial approval limits, credit/hedging responsibilities, 24/7 operational support expectations, and direct reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, economics, business, energy management, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in natural‑gas supply, transportation, origination, trading, pipeline development, or fuel procurement supporting power generation or large industrial loads.
• Strong knowledge of physical gas markets, pipeline tariffs and operations, transportation contracts, nominations/balancing, pricing, basis risk, and reliability planning.
• Experience negotiating commercial agreements and coordinating technical, legal, credit, regulatory, finance, and operations stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze fuel demand, heat‑rate and dispatch assumptions, market data, transportation alternatives, and commercial risk.
• Excellent negotiation, relationship‑management, quantitative, presentation, and decision‑support skills.
• Experience with PJM‑region gas‑electric coordination and relevant pipeline systems preferred.
• Location: Hybrid or on‑site near Piketon, OH; up to 60 % travel if hybrid.

Pay

Base pay range: $140,000 – $170,000. Compensation is tailored to individual skills, experience, location, and market benchmarks, and may include performance‑based bonuses, equity grants, and a comprehensive health and wellness benefits package.

Benefits

• 100 % company‑paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Generous paid time off plus 11 paid holidays.
• 12 weeks parental leave.
• Life, AD&D, and long‑term disability coverage.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (medical, dependent care, transit & parking) with company contributions.
• Mental, physical, and social wellness support with company contributions.
• Flexible work arrangements and hybrid office setup.
• Monthly reimbursement for phone, internet, and data.
• Optional legal and pet insurance plans.
• Device purchase support.