Gas & Fuel Supply Lead - Power Generation

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

Job summary

SB Energy is seeking a Gas & Fuel Supply Lead to support and drive strategy, development, contracting, and readiness of natural gas supply for Ohio Powered Land assets. The role reports to the Project Director, with close coordination with Commercial & Offtake.

Responsibilities include developing fuel-supply strategy, evaluating pipelines and interconnections, negotiating gas-related agreements, and coordinating with engineering and regulatory stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, economics, business, energy management or related discipline.
• 5+ years in natural gas supply, transportation, origination, trading, pipeline development, or fuel procurement for power generation or large industrial loads.
• Strong knowledge of physical gas markets, pipeline tariffs, nominations/balancing, pricing, basis risk and reliability planning.

Responsibilities

• Support and develop integrated fuel-supply strategy, demand forecast, and contingency plan.
• Assess upstream supply, pipelines, storage, and interconnection options.
• Lead or support gas supply, transportation, interconnection, balancing agreements.

Skills

Negotiation

Relationship management

Quantitative analysis

Presentation skills

Decision-support

PJM coordination

Gas market knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, economics, business, energy management (related)

Job description

Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a SoftBank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, SoftBank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States. Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future-today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

Basic Function

The Gas & Fuel Supply Lead will support and drive strategy, development, contracting, and readiness of natural gas supply and transportation arrangements required to support reliable and economic operation of Ohio Powered Land gas-fired generation assets.

This person will report to the Project Director, Development & Integration, with close coordination with Commercial & Offtake.

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.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, economics, business, energy management, or a 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.
• Experience with PJM-region gas-electric coordination and relevant pipeline systems preferred.

Location: Hybrid or On Site near Piketon, OH. 60% Travel if Hybrid.

Base Pay - $140,000 - $170,000

The pay range mentioned above is a guideline. We tailor each offer based on your unique skills, experience, location, and market benchmarks-while ensuring internal parit