Associate Service Consultant- Sugar Land, TX

CenterPoint Energy•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Serves as a single-point-of-contact for customer distribution projects, coordinating projects from inception to completion and distribution system development, reliability, and maintenance. Analyzes, designs, and prepares structural and electrical specifications and work orders. Aligns resources to meet customer service commitments and leads teams to address customer needs, considering cost-effectiveness, future growth, safety, code requirements, and customer satisfaction. This position is located in Sugar Land, TX at the Sugar Land Service Center.

Requirements

A minimum of an Associates Degree is required.
Will consider relevant job-related CenterPoint Energy experience or 5 years of experience in electric distribution operations, construction management, construction science or engineering technology industry-related experience in lieu of degree.
Two (2) years’ prior work experience preferred.
Prior work experience for an electric utility company, and/or exposure to project coordination for an electric utility designing overhead and underground electrical distribution systems will be considered first.

Responsibilities

Collaborates with multiple departments, customers, municipalities, outside consulting firms, and other utilities to gather information required to execute projects accurately and in a timely manner.
Develops and maintains business partnerships with elected officials and employees of city, county, and state entities to effectively service customers.
Supports community and civic organizations through active participation. Assists with project coordination and fund-raising events.
Demonstrates project coordination skills for distribution capital and maintenance programs for CenterPoint Energy.
Gathers project information, prepares estimates, analyzes data and designs electrical and street light distribution facilities.
Represents the company in service extension negotiations related to service locations.
Ensures customer obligations are met, negotiates and secures payment of projects, researches easement rights, and maintains completion of construction within specified timeframes.
Identifies, evaluates, and if necessary, corrects pre-existing issues related to compliance with governmental regulations, code violations, and CenterPoint Energy standards. Corrective action may require negotiation with customers related to safety, cost, and legal responsibility.
Reviews facilities for compliance with the National Electric Safety Code (NESC), state, city and county governmental ordinances and CenterPoint Energy standards. Must have the ability to gain working knowledge of the National Electric Code (NEC).
Performs field inspections as needed for final project approval, foreign cable attachments, customer installed facilities, and miscellaneous customer requests.
Participates in CenterPoint Energy’s Emergency Operation Plan (EOP). This may require extended work hours conducting facility inspections, in the field interactions with customers and other duties to support service restoration.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Paid training
Benefits eligibility begins on your first day
Transit subsidies
Flexible work schedule
Paid holidays
Paid time off
Access to discounts at fitness clubs
On-site wellness center at our headquarters in Houston
Professional growth and development programs
Tuition reimbursement
401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match dollar-for-dollar up to 6% and a company contribution of 3% regardless of your contribution