Trader I/II/Senior - Gulf

About the role

At EQT, you won't just do a job, you'll help shape our future. Through Transparent Leadership, you'll work alongside leaders who value collaboration and ensure every voice is heard. Through Connected Impact, you'll see how your work influences critical business decisions and drives value across our operations. Through Supported Growth, you'll have opportunities to expand your skills through cross-functional collaboration, development opportunities, and career advancement.

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The Trader I/II/Sr is responsible for managing and optimizing a natural gas trading portfolio with a focus on Gulf markets, leveraging detailed market analysis, risk management, and execution of physical and financial transactions. The position requires deep knowledge of Gulf supply/demand dynamics, pipeline and LNG flows, and pricing hubs, along with strong quantitative and analytical skills to make disciplined decisions in fast-moving market conditions. The trader partners closely with risk, operations, and commercial teams to drive profitability while adhering to firm risk limits and compliance standards.

The Trader I/II/Sr responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Initiate, develop and execute strategies to capture profitable term natural gas trading opportunities within the Gulf 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 Gulf, optimizing around seasonal spreads, LNG feedgas demand, 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.
• 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.

Work Location

• This position will work out of our Houston, TX office 4 days per week.

Selected incumbent will be placed into the position that best suits their abilities and experience level.