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, quality performance, and work scheduling for all metering technicians. The Metering Supervisor will oversee the maintenance and repair of all equipment, meters, data acquisition, and AMR components associated with the customer facilities. The Metering Supervisor reports to the Reliability and Maintenance Manager. This is a full-time, on-site, exempt position located in Boston, MA.

Responsibilities

• Oversees direct reports to ensure compliance with company operating and safety procedures, able to use and instruct employees to use safety equipment necessary to perform the job in a safe and timely manner. 

• 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. 

• Interfaces with employees in other departments, customers, other utilities, government agency representatives and the public. 
• Assures that proper maintenance is being completed on all assigned customer services, non-customer piping systems, and equipment located on department trucks for P6 service work. 
• Possesses demonstrated leadership ability with department employees of various knowledge levels. 
• Understands abilities, limitations and recognizes individual differences in people for the purpose of motivating them to perform and complete all assigned work in a timely manner. 
• 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 employee timesheets. 
• Ensure housekeeping duties are assigned. 
• Performs any related duties as assigned. 

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering related field preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in the field working with I&C and or metering systems.

• 2+ years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Maximo or CMMS system experience preferred.

Physical Requirements 

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

• 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.

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.