Utilities Fuel Procurement Administrator • (Richmond)

Utilities Fuel Procurement Administrator

The City of Richmond Department of Public Utilities is seeking a qualified candidate to fill the Utilities Fuel Procurement Administrator position. The Utilities Fuel Procurement Administrator is responsible for purchasing and making recommendations regarding purchasing natural gas. Work includes analyzing market trends, monitoring price fluctuations, contract administration (for supply, transportation and storage), calculating monthly gas costs and recommending gas commodity rates and formulating budgets for total gas costs. In addition employee will provide customer support and technical assistance to the City's highest volume industrial accounts and users, reconcile monthly Transportation Service volume balances and help attract and retain customers. Day to day duties include collecting, summarizing, and analyzing gas flows, gas prices, and forecasting short term and long term natural gas purchases. In addition, the Utility Fuel Procurement Administrator will respond to customer inquiries and review customer flows to ensure they are in an appropriate rate class.

Duties include but are not limited to :

• Ensuring adequate natural gas supply;
• Monitor gas inflows and outflows from inventory to ensure compliance with contracts;
• Track purchase gas cost and gas cost revenues to recommend PGC rate changes;
• Work with gas operations and relay operational issues to / from gas asset manager;
• Provide customer support for large volume gas customers;
• Review existing natural gas contracts and renew contracts in orderly fashion and make recommendations on new or existing contracts.

Qualifications, special certifications and licenses :

MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE :

LICENSING, CERTIFICATIONS, and / or OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS :

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES :

Knowledge :

Skills :

Abilities :

Americans with Disabilities Act Requirements

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS : Working conditions may include exposure to travel to other locations within the City of Richmond as well as outside of the City of Richmond; exposure to hazardous physical conditions such as mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, etc.; atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and poor ventilation; inadequate lighting; intense noise; and environmental hazards such as disruptive people, imminent danger, and a threatening environment.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT : Due to the nature of work assignments, incumbents must be able to perform detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks, with frequent interruptions and under time constraint. While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach extending hands and arms in any direction, stand, push, pull, lift, finger (picking, pinching or otherwise working primarily with fingers), grasp applying pressure to an object with fingers or palms, talk, see, and hear. The employee is frequently required to climb, balance, stoop, crouch, crawl, walk, feel and use substantial repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and fingers. In terms of the physical strength to perform the essential duties, this classification is considered to be sedentary, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The City of Richmond provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. The City of Richmond is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, the City of Richmond will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If you require reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to participate in the job application and / or the interview process, please contact Jessica McKenzie, Human Resources Manager by email at Jessica.McKenzie@RVA.GOV.

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