Manager, Gas Integration & Supply

The Company

NorthMark Compute & Cloud (NMC²) is backed by dedicated leadership and investment, with a clear mission as it operates at the bleeding edge of technology. Its goal is to scale and enhance the high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure that supports its clients' research, production, and delivery, enabling breakthroughs that shape the industries of tomorrow. Its engineers build critical infrastructure to eliminate friction in scientific research, simulations, analysis, and decision-making, accelerating discovery and driving faster innovation.

The Position

The Manager, Gas Integration & Supply supports continuous, reliable data center operations by forecasting, modeling, and securing natural gas supply for on-site or connected power generation assets. This role works closely with data center engineering teams to translate dynamic and evolving power demand requirements into accurate natural gas nominations for multiple gas-fired turbines.

In addition to operational scheduling, this role has a strong cost optimization and forecasting improvement mandate, including identifying overbought and oversold gas positions, quantifying financial impacts, and continuously refining forecasts to reduce exposure to spot market purchases. The role also supports the company’s natural gas commercial strategy by collaborating with third‑party gas suppliers and vendors, analyzing market conditions, and supporting the execution of gas purchases and sales in alignment with operational needs and risk parameters.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate daily with data center engineers to understand short-term, monthly, and forward-looking power requirements, recognizing that load forecasts are fluid and subject to change.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve natural gas consumption models (or leverage existing tools) that translate electrical load forecasts into turbine-level gas demand.
• Incorporate turbine performance curves, ambient conditions, ramp rates, and operational constraints into fuel demand calculations.
• Analyze forecast deviations and identify root causes (load changes, modeling assumptions, operational constraints) to improve future accuracy.
• Prepare and submit daily, monthly, and forward natural gas nominations to support power generation requirements.
• Work closely with the natural gas provider’s strategic account manager and third‑party gas suppliers, marketers, and pipeline operators to ensure sufficient supply, transportation capacity, and operational flexibility.
• Monitor scheduled versus actual gas usage and proactively manage variances to avoid curtailments, penalties, or forced spot market purchases.
• Track and report overbought and oversold natural gas positions, including the operational and financial impact to the organization.
• Quantify the cost or benefit associated with forecast variances, spot purchases, excess gas sales, or imbalance charges.
• Provide regular reporting and insights to stakeholders highlighting drivers of variance and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset focused on reducing forecast error and minimizing spot market exposure.
• Investigate forecast misses and collaborate with engineering, operations, and commercial teams to improve assumptions, processes, and models.
• Recommend process enhancements, tools, or data inputs to improve forecast reliability and scheduling efficiency.
• Monitor natural gas market prices, trends, and volatility relevant to the organization’s operating footprint.
• Analyze supply and demand dynamics, regional basis movements, and market fundamentals to support timing and structure of gas purchases and sales.
• Provide input and recommendations to commercial or risk management teams regarding hedging strategies or procurement approaches aligned with load uncertainty and operational flexibility.
• Support longer-term planning by providing insights into fuel cost risk and supply reliability.
• Communicate fuel supply risks, forecast changes, and financial impacts clearly to engineering, operations, and commercial leadership.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with trading, risk, finance, and operations teams to support the company’s natural gas trading and procurement objectives.
• Maintain documentation of models, assumptions, and scheduling methodologies.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Energy Management, Finance, Economics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3 years of experience in natural gas scheduling, fuel management, power generation operations, or energy trading support.
• Strong working knowledge of natural gas markets, pipeline nominations, and supply logistics.
• Experience supporting gas-fired power generation assets preferred.
• Advanced analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and modeling tools; experience with energy management or ETRM systems is a plus.
• Strong analytical and financial mindset with the ability to connect operational decisions and market activity to economic outcomes.