Natural Gas Scheduler

About The Energy Authority
The Energy Authority (TEA) is a public power-owned, nonprofit corporation with offices in Jacksonville, Florida, and Bellevue (Seattle), Washington. TEA provides public power utilities with access to advanced resources and technology systems so they can respond competitively in the changing energy markets. Through partnership with TEA, utilities gain an experienced organization singularly focused on maximizing the market value of their assets.

About This Role

The primary purpose of this position is the scheduling of natural gas requirements for TEA, its Members, and its Clients. This entails coordinating the receipt and delivery of natural gas between suppliers, producers, marketers, pipelines, and customers and ensures that volumes are accurately tracked across multiple pipelines to support physical gas trading activity. The position will require ensuring data integrity in TEA's deal capture system and spreadsheets and interfacing with TEA's risk control, credit, and settlement departments to ensure accurate reporting and settlement.

In addition, this position will be expected to provide additional support to the natural gas traders by managing pipeline EBB's for all scheduling implications that could impact the flow of gas and market pricing, managing imbalance positions, as well as providing analytical and technical support for market analysis.. This job requires remaining on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to handle unexpected operational requirements as needed.

Scheduling/Pipeline Intelligence

• Schedule, nominate, and confirm natural gas transportation on interstate, intrastate, and LDC pipelines via electronic bulletin boards (EBBs) on the internet.
• Daily monitoring of pipeline EBBs and coordination with pipeline transportation representatives to report all pertinent market and operational information to the gas trading team regarding potential impacts and alternative solutions. This includes pipeline constraints, outages, capacity release, maintenance, and any other changes or information impacting physical flows of natural gas.
• Manage inventory positions and minimizing imbalances by utilizing excel spreadsheets for TEA, its Members, and Partners. When imbalances occur, works within pipeline guidelines to reduce, eliminate as economically as possible.
• Consult and communicate with the trading team and customers regarding physical positions to ensure accurate and reliable volumes of gas to be traded and scheduled. This includes collecting and monitoring electronic flow measurement data throughout the gas nomination cycles.
• Communicate effectively with external counter parties, clients, and the pipelines to ensure all gas requirements are properly accounted for during the nomination lifecycle.
• Monitor and evaluate the released capacity markets. Prepare capacity release bids and offers, as appropriate.
• Perform imbalance trading and cash-outs on respective pipelines.
• Continually studying and building knowledge on the dynamics of gas flow on pipelines. This includes identifying incremental capacity and supply availability which by used in a commercial manner for TEA and its Members and clients.
• Maintains knowledge of rights and obligations for TEA's gas supply, transportation contracts, and pipeline tariffs and applies this knowledge to the nomination process to ensure compliance with contract obligations and to optimize use of contract rights
• Monitors weather forecasts and pipeline transportation allocations and makes projections of gas demands and communicates this information to team members and clients, requesting their input on gas demand, then makes gas flow nomination changes as necessary to keep gas supply in balance with market demand

Member, Employee and Industry Relations

• Develop and maintain positive external relationships with Members, fellow employees, producers, marketers, storage operators, and pipelines.
• Working together cohesively with a spirit of teamwork to improve the effectiveness of the gas department.
• Provide excellent customer service - internally and externally.
• Ability to competently and efficiently cross-train on current and new concepts occurring on scheduler's respective pipelines.
• Keep Members, and clients informed of changing market conditions and advise them accordingly
• Develop and maintain a diverse list of qualified suppliers of fuel, transportation, and storage services.
• Act as a liaison between TEA and its Members and Partners, and producers, marketers, pipelines, and shippers.

Deal Capture, Organization, Analytical, and Communication

• Work closely with traders to verify that transaction details are accurately recorded in TEA's deal capture system and spreadsheets. Make necessary adjustments in the system and spreadsheets to reflect curtailments due to allocations
• Continually learn TEA's internal processes and Horizon deal capture system to serve as a leader in resolving any discrepancies between middle and back office.
• Search for continuous process improvements in…