Trader I/II/Sr./Principal

EQT Corporation; Canonsburg (Washington County); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

EQT Corporation is seeking a Trader I/II/Sr./Principal to manage and optimize its natural gas trading portfolio focused on the Midwest and Rockies markets. The successful candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years' experience in natural gas trading. Responsibilities include strategy development, market evaluation, and enhancing trading processes. The role offers remote work flexibility excluding certain states. Join EQT Corporation, an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusivity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Experience trading physical, futures, swaps, options, and spreads.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize a natural gas trading portfolio.
• Initiate strategies to capture profitable natural gas trading opportunities.
• Monitor and evaluate relevant market conditions.

Skills

Natural gas trading

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Market analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related field

Job description

Position Overview

The Trader I/II/Sr./Principal is responsible for managing and optimizing a natural gas trading portfolio with a focus on Midwest and Rockies markets. The role requires deep knowledge of Midwest and Rockies supply/demand dynamics, pipeline flows, and pricing hubs, along with strong quantitative and analytical skills to make disciplined decisions in fast‑moving market conditions. The trader partners closely with risk, operations, and commercial teams to drive profitability while adhering to firm risk limits and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Initiate, develop and execute strategies to capture profitable term natural gas trading opportunities within the Midwest and Rockies region.
• Monitor and evaluate relevant market conditions, pivoting in/out of trades as necessitated by market conditions.
• Evaluate existing trading processes and collaborate with trading personnel to improve efficiency, transparency and value‑added measures.
• Evaluate, execute, and manage short and long‑term storage positions across the Midwest and Rockies, optimizing around seasonal spreads, power and industrial load to create incremental value.
• Use experience to develop optimization and trading strategies and direct origination efforts to execute these strategies.
• Clearly communicate summaries of relevant market conditions & opportunities upward within the organization.
• Establish and execute trading strategies to optimize the value of EQT's contractual pipeline capacity & storage assets.

Required Experience and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Creative/innovative with strong ability to understand market conditions and then translate into profitable results.
• Knowledge and understanding of regional pipeline/storage infrastructure and respective supply and demand composition and working relationships with commercial participants.
• Ability to construct a regional supply & demand model, knowledge of specific pipeline constraints, flows, costs, storage, contracts, end users and scheduling.
• Experience trading physical, futures, swaps, options, storage, index and spreads.
• Ability to meaningfully contribute to the development of natural gas commercial strategies.
• Working relationship with commercial participants (producers/pipelines/utilities/end users/traders).
• Understanding of the calculation of intrinsic & extrinsic values of transportation capacity and storage opportunities.
• Ability to travel up to 10–20% of the time for customer events, industry conferences, and team gatherings.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.
• Master's degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field.

Remote work is being considered for this role excluding the following states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee unless willing to relocate.

Selected incumbent will be placed into the position that best suits their abilities and experience level.

EQT Corporation and its subsidiaries is an Equal Opportunity Employer -- Disabilities/Veterans.