Gas & Fuel Supply Program Manager — Hybrid & Strategic

SB Energy; Ohio; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Wellness program

Hybrid work setup

Job summary

SB Energy in Ohio seeks a Gas & Fuel Supply Project Manager to drive strategy, development, contracting, and readiness of natural gas supply and transportation for Ohio Powered Land assets. You will report to the Project Director, Development & Integration, and coordinate with Commercial & Offtake.

Responsibilities include leading gas-supply contracts, assessing upstream options, and managing relationships with producers, pipelines, and regulators.

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.

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 skills

Presentation skills

Decision-support

Education

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

Job description

SB Energy in Ohio seeks a Gas & Fuel Supply Project Manager to drive strategy, development, contracting, and readiness of natural gas supply and transportation for Ohio Powered Land assets. You will report to the Project Director, Development & Integration, and coordinate with Commercial & Offtake.

Responsibilities include leading gas-supply contracts, assessing upstream options, and managing relationships with producers, pipelines, and regulators.