Dynamic Short-Term Gas Trader – North America

RWE Gruppe; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

RWE Supply & Trading Americas, LLC seeks a Short-Term Gas Trader to manage and optimize North American gas positions. You will work with scheduling, origination, analytics and power trading teams to maximize value and control risk.

The role covers trading across prompt, day-ahead and intra-day markets, monitoring pipelines, and building analytics tools to improve market visibility and position management. Strong collaboration and market insight are essential.

Qualifications

• Actively trade and optimize short-term natural gas positions across North American markets.
• Identify and execute short-term trading opportunities across prompt, day-ahead and intra-day markets.
• Collaborate with power traders to account for cross-commodity interactions in trading decisions.

Responsibilities

• Trade and optimize short-term natural gas positions across North American markets, including physical and financial transactions.
• Identify and execute opportunities across prompt, day-ahead and intra-day markets.
• Monitor pipeline constraints and operational events that create trading opportunities.
• Manage trading exposures within risk limits and contribute to P&L through position management.
• Contribute to trading analytics, dashboards and tools to improve market visibility and optimization.

Skills

Natural gas trading

Cross-commodity understanding

Excel advanced

Python/SQL/Power BI

Risk management

Nominations & balancing

Pipeline operations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Business or a related field

Tools

Genscape

Enverus

BTU Analytics

NGI

Excel

Python

SQL

Power BI

Job description

RWE Supply & Trading Americas, LLC seeks a Short-Term Gas Trader to manage and optimize North American gas positions. You will work with scheduling, origination, analytics and power trading teams to maximize value and control risk.

The role covers trading across prompt, day-ahead and intra-day markets, monitoring pipelines, and building analytics tools to improve market visibility and position management. Strong collaboration and market insight are essential.