Sr Gas Scheduler - Hybrid Schedule

Responsibilities

• Scheduling
• Submission of nominations (daily and monthly) to the appropriate utility, ISO, or natural gas pipeline
• Accurately capture all scheduling related transactions in the ETRM
• Develop professional relationships with schedulers from natural gas suppliers, ensuring necessary communication of nomination information occurs
• Analyze supply needs by pipeline and LDC on a daily and monthly basis, effectively responding to critical notices issued by pipelines and LDCs
• Navigate gas scheduling around pipeline and LDC maintenance, outages, and periods of operational constraint
• Maintain MPG’s daily and monthly imbalance positions and minimize related charges
• Fosters strategic relationship development with internal stakeholders and external market participants
• Ad hoc operational and financial modeling in support of company budgeting and decision making
• Analytical support, to the Supply Manager, of supply purchases as well as injections to and withdrawals from storage
• Maintain ETRM with most up-to-date transport, capacity, and fuel rates, per the tariff of each pipeline and utility
• Verify actualized customer consumption
• Settlements
• Support for customer invoicing, including review of ETRM calculations to ensure accuracy
• Financial settlement support, including shadow settling of invoices received from suppliers, utilities, and pipelines
• Communication
• Daily communication with suppliers, customers, utilities, and pipelines to verify purchases, sales, and disruptions
• Communication to the Supply Manager of schedule reductions
• After hours on-call duty
• Market Expansion Support
• Interface with Risk Control to ensure compliance with corporate risk policy
• Support configuration of ETRM related to market expansion
• Comprehension of transportation contracts issued by pipelines
• Comprehension of pipeline and utility imbalance calculations

Requirements

• Formal Education & Certification
• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, business, engineering or equivalent experience
• MBA preferred, but not required
• Knowledge & Experience
• 5 + years of experience scheduling natural gas
• Previous experience where demonstrated critical thinking skills can be shown
• Experience with the implementation of an ETRM preferred
• Experience scheduling gas to Atlanta Gas Light, Piedmont, PSNC or Chicago utilities strongly preferred
• Qualifications & Characteristics
• Excellent analytical skills, ability to quickly understand, isolate and resolve issues
• Self-directed, requiring little direct supervision or assistance
• Excellent time management skills, ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proficient in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Word
• High level of proficiency in MS Excel is desirable

Work Environment

• Hybrid schedule available after training completed (3 days in the office 2 days remote)
• Sitting for extended periods of time
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse and other computer components