Manager, Natural Gas Supply Operations

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business, and as an employee team. At Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.

Purpose

Leads the Gas Scheduling and Retail Choice functions to ensure accurate and timely scheduling and reporting of natural gas supplies on several interstate pipelines throughout Liberty Utilities, including the Central and East Regions. Manages the team to ensure that the team schedulers maintain uninterrupted delivery of natural gas as required to satisfy customer demand needs. Works closely with the purchasing and planning leads of the Central and East Region within Energy Procurement. Ensures that scheduling coverage is available 24/7. Interacts with Supplier, Producer and Pipeline personnel to support the timley and accurate operation of the Company’s gas management, retail choice and invoicing activities.

Accountabilities

- Manages others to ensure that gas supplies are scheduled and delivered in a highly accurate manner consistent with best-cost supply strategies.

- Monitors contracts and pipeline tariffs to assure rules are followed and utilized for procurement decisions, including updating pipeline rates in a gas management system

- Maintains Marketer data system and rules (for applicable natural gas utilies and Granite State electric), and ensures accuracy of related gas nominations and pipeline confirmations

- Reconciles pipeline, supplier, hedging and other transactional invoices and routes for appropriate approvals and signature.

- Follows up with relevant party when there are discrepancies between flowing gas and invoiced volumes

- Prepares invoice with proper financial coding prior to submitting to Finance for payment

- Provides closing information to regulatory and financial accounting for use in forecasting and reconciliation.

- Maintains the Gas Management system for scheduling and capacity release activities for audit and month end activities

- Maintains contract and deal ticket information

- Responds to data requests and inquiries from State Regulatory Commisions

- Maintains close working relationships with local engineering and operations staff, Marketers, Pipeline representatives, Supply Specialists and Planners to ensure effective communication between all parties regarding distribution system integrity

Education and Experience

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

- 5+ years of experience in the natural gas industry - 1+ year of leadership experience is an asset

- Solid business acumen and ability to work well in a team environment.

- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & Access) and other technologies

- Strong analytical, oral and written communications skills required

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is a growing renewable energy and utility company with over $15 billion of assets across North America and internationally.

For more than 30 years, Algonquin has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to delivering clean energy and water solutions. Our rapid growth has led both our regulated utility services and renewable energy business groups into different geographies and commodities, but our purpose remains unchanged – Sustaining Energy and Water for Life. Through our operating business (Liberty), we provide regulated electricity, water, and natural gas utility services to over 1 million customer connections, primarily in North America. And, our growing portfolio of clean, renewable wind, solar, hydro and thermal power generation facilities represent over 3 GW of renewable generation capacity in operation and under construction. With our robust, diversified, and growing presence in communities across North America and internationally, we are continually demonstrating our “Think Global, Act Local” business model. What We Offer

Company funded Pension program

401k with Company match

Full insurance benefits (health/dental/vision/life)

Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy

Share purchase/match plan

Defined Contribution savings plan

Top Talent Program

Volunteer paid days off

Employee Assistance Program

Achievement fund

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not certain you meet the all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to further investigate the opportunity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person’s unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents. Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all of our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.