Senior Natural Gas Scheduler

About Us

South Jersey Industries (SJI) is an energy holding company that delivers clean energy services to 700,000+ customers and businesses throughout 14 counties in New Jersey. As part of our core values, SJI is dedicated to being a community partner and developing innovative clean energy solutions to meet the needs of the future. To do this, we depend on our workforce of over 1,100+ talented, diverse employees who help us deliver safe, reliable, affordable clean energy for a better today and tomorrow.

At SJI, we believe that our employees are our most valuable asset. Whether you’re a seasoned operations technician or an early-career legal professional, our culture, inclusive workforce, and  leadership development and training programs will provide you with the tools you need to either kickstart your career or bring it to new heights.

Position Summary

A career in Natural Gas Scheduling will provide the opportunity to manage and support all scheduling requirements for South Jersey Resources Group’s natural gas activity on pipelines and storage facilities.

Roles within Natural Gas Scheduling involves recording all relevant data and transactions on the monitoring system to ensure proper tracking for the generation of reports. In addition, this role will be responsible for the preparation of spreadsheets as well as nominating and/or confirming gas volumes. This role will also assist the Natural Gas Traders to minimize imbalances to eliminate and/or avoid pipeline penalties. NOTE: This position requires working before/after regular office hours including some work during holidays and weekends as well as travel to the Folsom, NJ office every other month for four consecutive days.

Essential Duties:

• Arranges for delivery of natural gas to our customers on a daily basis. 

• Nominates all contractual data on a timely basis to the applicable receipt and delivery pipelines. 

• Communicates between our suppliers and customers to ensure that contractual nomination data is coordinated throughout the delivery chain. 

• Ensures that all gas purchases have an applicable delivery point and that all gas sold has an applicable supply point. 

• Works with gas marketing personnel to ensure that imbalances are minimized by communicating in a timely manner when problems arise. 

• Enters all pertinent nomination data into the nomination systems maintained by the applicable pipeline and point operators. 

• Tracks the movement of all physical gas sales and maintains spreadsheets showing the contractual movements of gas. 

• Enters actual physical sales data into SJRG accounting records when initial sales require modification due to changes in delivery volumes. 

• Works with suppliers, purchasers, pipelines and point operators to monitor and minimize imbalances. When imbalances occur, works within pipeline and LDC guidelines to reduce, eliminate, or trade those imbalances in the manor most advantageous to the company. 

• Reviews the efficiency of the nomination and accounting activities to ensure that those functions are run in the optimal manner. 

• Develops and cultivates favorable relationships with gas purchasers, producers and suppliers. 

• Identifies incremental capacity and supply availability which may be acquired by the company in a cost effective and profitable manner to the company. 

• Represents the c