Territorial Boundaries Power Utility Engineer Job

TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES POWER UTILITY ENGINEER for a long term contract opportunity with Yoh's client located in Inverness, FL.

THE BIG PICTURE:

- This position's primary duties will be to work with our clients Territorial Agreement efforts which will involve:
- compiling existing Territorial Agreement Maps
- Riding out territorial boundaries between our client and neighboring utilities to determine If the boundary is correctly shown on existing maps, If Duke is serving customers outside of boundary and if a neighboring utility is serving within Duke boundary
- Compiling spreadsheets of cross-served customers
- Making recommendations to Duke management whether or not Duke should serve or give up customers being cross-served
- Designing work orders to serve or remove facilities within cross-served areas.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

- This position focuses on smaller residential, leased lighting or commercial work requests serving new or existing customers and smaller reliability work requests, with advancement to more complex customer facing and reliability work orders. Job Duties-Customer Facing Work
- Learn and practice a "Safety First" attitude incorporating company safety rules and policies in all aspects of daily work.
- Meet with customers in the field to determine power requirements and design necessary distribution power facilities to satisfy customer needs within negotiated timeframes. Analyze customer blueprints/provided information to determine project power requirements. Coordinate closely with customer to insure all obligations are met prior to construction. Communicate via written and verbal means to keep internal and external customers informed of project status.
- Be the single point of customer contact for residential, smaller commercial, small subdivision, private area light and overhead to underground service conversion type projects. Prepare estimates and work requests for single customer private area lighting and smaller commercial lighting installations. Take responsibility and ownership of customer facing projects from inception to completion: initial customer notification to meter set.
- Manage multiple projects and customers in order to assure timely, successful completion of projects resulting in high levels of customer satisfaction and company/departmental/individual goal achievement.
- Perform field investigation and design for non-customer facing work including but not limited to pad-mounted transformer, underground cable, and pole replacement projects.
- Learn and incorporate company safety rules and policies, company design standards and governing authority regulations into daily work and designs. Designs will meet all requirements of applicable company safety standards, company distribution construction standards, and governing authority regulations.
- Learn and use company design platforms (WMIS and G-Net Viewer) to prepare and input work order packages, specify labor and materials required to build projects, create construction prints, and develop customer invoicing. Develop cost estimates for options to provide power to customers.
- Develop and incorporate private property, easement and road right of way knowledge into daily work and designs. Work with land agent staff to secure easements from customers.
- Consult closely with crew members and crew management to fully understand operational nature of distribution power systems, construction requirements and learn material used in the industry.
- Coordinate projects for construction across multiple departments to accomplish timely construction and meet customer needs within a negotiated timeframe.
- Be available for and perform major and minor storm restoration duties including extended working hours, field work and/or specific storm assignments.
- Work independently and under general supervision performing tasks indicative of the job.
- Must be customer focused and possess a comfort working with customers on a daily basis.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:

- HS diploma minimum, prefer at least 2 year degree
- Experience with WMIS or/and GNET viewer design systems
- Experience in electric utility industry
- Must be customer focused, work well in a team, analytical, organized and possess negotiation skills
- Experience working with general public including written or verbal communication through job, internship, or volunteer history
- Experience with land ownership, deeds, easements, property line determination
- Travel
- Extensive travel in personal vehicle within north Florida will be required and overnight stays (within north Florida) may be required. In conjunction with Territorial Agreement work, this position will also be in a customer facing design position and is responsible for high levels of customer satisfaction and communication together with the design and project execution of smaller distribution work orders.

RECRUITER: Jerrod Macias

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V. Contact us if you are an individual with a disability and require accommodation in the application process.

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