Metering Supervisor

Vicinity Energy is North America’s largest provider of district energy solutions, offering low carbon energy to most of the iconic buildings you see in the skylines of Boston, Cambridge, Philadelphia, Baltimore and many other cities in the US. As a member of the communities we serve, all of us at Vicinity understand the critical role we play in reducing the impacts of climate change and being a leader in decarbonization. We are committed to net zero and eliminating our reliance on fossil fuels, but we need the best and the brightest minds on our team to help us reach our goal, not only for us as a company, but for our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Summary

The Metering Supervisor will provide leadership, oversight, and quality performance regarding the maintenance and repair of all equipment, meters, data acquisition, and AMR components associated with the customer facilities. The Metering Supervisor will develop and refine preventative maintenance plans and task descriptions to streamline Baltimore’s metering program. The work at times may involve written and verbal contact with vendors and customers. This role is technical in nature with regards to parts procurement and outage planning and requires customer service skills to deal with suppliers. The Metering Supervisor reports to the Maintenance Manager. This is a full-time, on-site, exempt position located in Baltimore, MD.

The compensation range for this position is $80,000-110,000 annually plus a 15% bonus target.

Responsibilities

- Oversees the installation, maintenance and accuracy of utility metering systems, ensuring compliance with regulations and company standards.

- Supervises, schedules and participates in the meter reading and customer service activities.

- Maintains safe working conditions and identifies and corrects or reports on unsafe conditions in work areas.

- Prepares estimates, PARs, and technical engineering requests (ESRs) for metering installations and upgrades.

- Plans, schedules, and implements daily metering activities and sets priorities in scheduling based on customer needs.

- Provides on the job training for all employees in several areas including but not limited to safety and job development.

- Communicates timely and relevant information to management, direct reports and others as situations necessitate.

- Reviews metering data reports, identifies problem areas and suggests or develops problem solutions for identified metering issues.

- Works closely with the Finance team and Distribution Manager to assure continuity between office and field personnel.

- Interfaces with employees in other departments, customers, other utilities, government agency representatives and the public.

- Maintains a cost effective inventory control for the department.

- Provides logs, writes procedures, writes reports and updates procedures and reports as needed and forwards all requests to management for review.

- Demonstrates leadership with department employees of various knowledge levels.

- Responsible for accurate and timely completion of meter read data as well as estimates.

- Performs any related duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in the field working with instrumentation and controls or metering systems.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering related field.

- Minimum of 2 years of supervisory experience.

- Maximo or CMMS system experience.

- Proficient in Microsoft Applications.

Physical Requirements

- Must submit to a company provided pre-employment physical and drug screening.

- Must possess a valid driver license in good standing in order to operate a company vehicle. Must have and maintain a driving record meeting the standards of the company.

- Standing, sitting, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, walking on uneven surfaces, and grating, working from elevated platforms, scaffolding or ladders, required to lift up to and including 50 pounds.

- Must qualify to wear a respirator.

- Exposed to temperature extremes, high noise level areas, high pressure steam lines, rotating equipment, and dusty/dirty environment.

- Required to wear PPE such as a hard hat, safety glasses, safety shoes, hearing protection.

Benefits

- Personal Leave

- FMLA up to 12 weeks based on approval

- Nonpaid benefit

- Paid Time Off (PTO)

- 120 hours accrued annually which equals 4.62 hours per pay period

- Sick Leave

- 40 hours per calendar year prorated based on month of hire

- Paid Parental Leave

- 100% pay up to 160 hours upon birth or adoption of a child; must be used in weekly increments

- 7 paid holidays annually

- Floating holidays

- 40 hours per calendar year prorated based on month of hire

- 401K plan

- Including Roth option with matching contributions: 100% of first 1% your contributions and 50% of the next 5% of your contributions.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY POLICY STATEMENT Vicinity North America is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.