Gas & Fuel Strategy Lead — Power Generation (Hybrid)

SB Energy; Piketon (OH); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company 401(k) Match

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Health benefits

Job summary

SB Energy seeks a Gas & Fuel Supply Lead to develop and operationalize fuel-supply strategies for its Ohio generation assets. You will coordinate gas supply, transportation, and interconnection activities, while guiding risk management and commercial negotiations.

The role reports to the Project Director, Development & Integration, and requires strong negotiation, quantitative, and coordination skills across technical, legal, and regulatory stakeholders. Hybrid or on-site in Piketon, OH.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, economics, business, energy management, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in natural gas supply, transportation, origination, trading, pipeline development, or fuel procurement supporting power generation or large industrial loads.
• Strong knowledge of physical gas markets, pipeline tariffs and operations, transportation contracts, nominations/balancing, pricing, basis risk, and reliability planning.
• Experience negotiating commercial agreements and coordinating technical, legal, credit, regulatory, finance, and operations stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze fuel demand, heat-rate and dispatch assumptions, market data, transportation alternatives, and commercial risk.
• Excellent negotiation, relationship-management, quantitative, presentation, and decision-support skills.

Responsibilities

• Support and develop integrated fuel-supply strategy, demand forecast, reliability criteria, contingency plan, and commercial roadmap for development and operations.
• Provide assessment of upstream supply, interstate and intrastate pipeline transportation, lateral and interconnect options, capacity availability, pressure/quality requirements, storage, balancing, and redundancy.
• Lead or support requests for proposals, commercial evaluations, negotiations, and execution of gas supply, transportation, interconnection, balancing, and related agreements.
• Coordinate fuel assumptions and facility requirements with generation technology selection, heat-rate modeling, dispatch profiles, air permitting, site layout, pipeline engineering, schedule, and project economics.
• Manage relationships with producers, marketers, pipeline companies, utilities, consultants, counsel, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Identify basis, congestion, curtailment, credit, capacity, construction, regulatory, force-majeure, and operational risks and recommend mitigations.
• Track pipeline/lateral development, metering and regulation facilities, permits, easements, procurement, construction, testing, nominations readiness, and first-gas milestones.
• Review and develop fuel budgets, forecasts, decision materials, and contract-compliance processes; support lender, investor, customer, and internal diligence.
• Plan the transition of fuel scheduling, nominations, imbalance management, settlement, and emergency procedures to the operating organization.
• Confirm target pipelines, lateral/interconnect ownership model, firm capacity requirements, dual-fuel or backup-fuel scope, and operating dispatch assumptions.
• Confirm commercial approval limits, credit/hedging responsibilities, 24/7 operational support expectations, and direct reports.

Skills

Negotiation

Relationship management

Quantitative analysis

Presentation skills

Decision-support

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, economics, business, energy management, or related discipline

Job description

SB Energy seeks a Gas & Fuel Supply Lead to develop and operationalize fuel-supply strategies for its Ohio generation assets. You will coordinate gas supply, transportation, and interconnection activities, while guiding risk management and commercial negotiations.

The role reports to the Project Director, Development & Integration, and requires strong negotiation, quantitative, and coordination skills across technical, legal, and regulatory stakeholders. Hybrid or on-site in Piketon, OH.