Senior Manager Gas Supply Services

Job Specifications

Black Hills Energy is people powered and purpose driven. Our team uses the power of energy to improve life for over one million customers in 800+ communities across the West and Midwest. We seek talented, caring people who embody our core values and contribute to a culture of inclusion and growth. As an organization, we believe the best part of working on our team is our commitment to making tomorrow better than today—for our customers, communities and each other.

The Senior Manager, Gas Supply Services is responsible for overseeing and executing the procurement, delivery and optimization of natural gas supply for an assigned Black Hills Energy utility service region. This role involves strategic planning, supplier relationship management, contract negotiations, people management, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The Senior Manager will lead a team, analyze market trends, and develop strategies to ensure reliability and service quality, while seeking to minimize costs.

This role is ideal for a results-driven professional with expertise in gas supply.

$116,500 - $192,400 (This posting includes the full pay range for this position. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity.)

Director of Gas Supply Services

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Relocation assistance is available based on individual circumstances! Details to be shared during the offer process.

• Develop and execute purchase and optimization strategies for supply acquisition requirements focusing on cost minimization, gas delivery reliability, and minimizing exposure to daily and monthly imbalances as three key objectives.
• Negotiate purchase and sales transactions with suppliers, ensuring competitive pricing and reliable delivery for term, monthly and daily purchases.
• Manage day-to-day operations including forecasting of daily load requirements, purchase or sale of gas for operational reasons, optimization of transportation and storage contracts, gas supply scheduling and system balancing.
• Coordinate with counterparts in Generation Dispatch and Power Marketing and Integrated Resources Planning to purchase gas supply to meet the fuel requirements for electric generation dispatch, as applicable. This may also pertain to natural gas utility capacity planning.
• Contribute to annual gas supply plan drafting and execution, with support of Director, Gas Supply Services, and other internal stakeholders as applicable.
• Manage and mentor a team of individual schedulers and forecasters to ensure supply deliverability, mitigation of pipeline imbalances and penalties, and assist with supplier and pipeline actualization and reconciliation as needed.
• Optimize supply portfolios to balance cost, risk and operational needs and maximize the value of pipeline capacity by soliciting interest and executing capacity release (and recall) transactions and asset management agreements, in compliance with FERC rules, and capturing value for customers.
• Participate in, or lead curtailment decisions, which may include internal collaboration with personnel in Gas Load Control, Operations, Regulatory, Business Development and Legal, as well as externally with pipeline companies.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders on budgeting, forecasting and operational planning.
• Provide back up support to Director of Gas Supply Services for financial hedge execution.
• May be required to present or prepare documentation, including testimony, on GSS topics. Audiences may include state operations, regulatory, state commission staffs, or for industry events.

• Participate in, or lead, special projects as a gas supply subject matter expert.
• Regularly use spreadsheets, database and word processing software, ETRM applications, and periodically learn new programs or applications such as Power
  
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• Works with a wide variety of people with tact, courtesy and professionalism.
• Excellent communication skills, both personal and electronic; must maintain a high level of professionalism;…