Senior Gas Transportation Specialist

 DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.
 

But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.
 

Testing Required: Not Applicable

Hybrid Role: Must be able to come on-site periodically and reside a commutable distance from the assigned work location.

Emergency Response: Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.

Job Summary

• Senior-level analyst and subject matter expert (SME) engaged in a broad range of activities associated with administering various retail natural gas programs. Leads and performs inbound scheduling of transportation, storage, and gathering transactions on transmission and gathering systems. Oversees all responsibilities related to outbound scheduling on third party pipelines, including: placing nominations; posting capacity release transactions, and; ensuring payback of exchange deals. Interacts closely with key energy customers, and is responsible for customer satisfaction. Employees hired into this role will be assigned to and expected to be able to work 12-hour rotating shifts that include weekends and holidays. Must be available for rotating on-call coverage. Span of control: 0; this is an individual contributor job.

Key Accountabilities

• Oversees all duties associated with processing inbound nominations on transmission and gathering systems. Includes confirming, balancing, and allocating nominations, and tracking and reconciling imbalances with third party pipelines and/or producers. Requires continuous interaction with key customers, passion for customer service, and close coordination with Legal, Regulatory, Marketing, Billing, Accounting, Audit, Gas Supply, and other Gas Operations business units.
• SME on the Company's gas nomination system; entails linking detailed knowledge of system functionality to internal and external usersÆ needs, troubleshooting system problems, and coordinating with IT and external software vendors on fixes and enhancements.
• Oversees all duties associated with processing outbound nominations on third party pipelines, including analyzing natural gas purchase plans, structuring transport deals in the least cost fashion; posting capacity release arrangements on third party pipelines, and; ensuring payback of exchange gas.
• Oversees administration of various retail natural gas programs. Entails acting as key contact for these programs with frequent interaction with regulatory and third party audit personnel. Ensures regulatory and contractual compliance.
• Performs complex financial and operational analysis to determine impact of new or modified service offerings or procedural changes; makes and implements complex decisions with minimal oversight.
• Applies Continuous Improvement tools to develop new procedures or to streamline and automate existing procedures.
• May lead special cross-functional natural gas projects; participates in cross-functional teams to develop new or enhance existing processes.
• May act as subject matter expert witness in regulatory proceedings.

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business or public administration, accounting/finance, economics or a related discipline, and 5 years of energy industry experience in an operational, finance, marketing or related capacity.
• Must have natural gas scheduling experience.

Other Qualifications

• Proficient verbal, written and presentation skills; communicates clearly, with credibility and confidence.
• Broad understanding of power generation, transmission, distribution and regional power dispatch issues.
• Must be able to work a rotational shift schedule that includes weekends and holidays and oncall coverage.
• Flexibility and the ability to work with shifting priorities; embrace new/evolving responsibilities; organizes and prioritizes routine assig