
Residential Energy Services Consultant
WEC Energy Group
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Delafield • Wisconsin • United States
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Salary
💰 $29 - $48 per hour
About the role
- Contact, establish, and maintain relationships with both new and current customers to discuss their energy service needs and requirements.
- Work with homeowners, developers, contractors, consultants, engineering firms, municipalities to establish new/expanded service.
- Consult with customers on service options and corresponding prices.
- Create/cancel work requests, send applications and other correspondence to customers, builders, contractors.
- Coordinate installation with internal and external resources, negotiate timelines and required-by dates.
- Request plot surveys, boundary lines and other missing information on work request.
- Manage customer contact and expectations for service delivery.
- Proactively manage internal work requests by identifying/resolving potential issues to completion.
- Provide notification for planned outage to affected customers.
- Respond to rate evaluations, bill inquiries, various service functions.
- Initiate customer referrals and promote participation in various company programs, energy efficiency, focus on energy, conservation measures.
- Determine availability of service.
- Apply standard cost guide information to give customer general cost for new service, rewire, relocation, deactivations/removal, etc.
- Determine need for site visit and assign design/site visit to appropriate personnel.
- Act on requests for site visits for central groups, customer contact centers, and customers to gather field information or determine if job is design/non-design.
- Provide answers to technical questions from construction crews, customers, etc.
- Identify options and alternatives to customer requests for service work.
- Perform gas energy audits, apply economic models for gas sales/gas main estimates.
- Share locations for potential new building, pool/deck sites, drain tile location, etc.
- Process annexation orders and request addresses to be designated and assigned by municipalities for new premises.
- Respond to meter requests/removals, prepare documents for Meter & Service.
- Coordinate/schedule customer/company requested outages, hold-offs, including client jobs.
- Report emergency or outage information for gas and electric facilities to the appropriate service department.
- Respond to notification of customer equipment violations/hazards by composing, scanning into STORMS, distributing letters to customers/municipalities and follow-up for possible corrective actions.
- Coordinate, conduct, participate, track site utility meetings for new residential/small commercial developments.
- Manage/record customer expectations regarding project timelines.
- Provide customers/developers/builders with appropriate contacts and applications/paperwork.
- Monitor schedule and provide ongoing communication of job status to all parties involved.
- Reconcile needs between customer, company, and municipalities to resolve conflicts regarding service needs.
- Update/manage database information, e.g., managing work queues, documenting customer contacts, etc.
- Respond to customers regarding outages and be available for emergency/storm duty roles.
- Investigate and resolve customer inquiries or complaints.
- Perform We Care calls.
- Provide back-up support to expediting and ESC staff.
- Walk permits to ensure on-time delivery for small commercial/residential service.
Requirements
- Applicant must have an associate degree (or equivalent education) in engineering, marketing, business administration, project management or finance.
- In lieu of an associate degree, applicant must have four years of Wisconsin Field Operations experience including customer service and clerical support.
- Applicant must have at least three years of customer contact experience.
- Applicant must have a valid driver's license and meet the company's requirements for driving.
- Official transcripts are required and should be submitted at the time of your application; must be attached to application or provided to HR within ten (10) days of the posting closing date.
- If you do not have your transcripts, please take the necessary steps to be able to provide them prior to being scheduled for any testing.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
customer serviceproject managementenergy auditscost estimationdata managementtechnical supportfield operationssite visit coordinationservice delivery managementoutage management
Soft Skills
relationship managementcommunicationproblem-solvingnegotiationorganizational skillscustomer expectation managementconflict resolutionproactive managementteam collaborationadaptability
Certifications
valid driver's licenseassociate degree in engineeringassociate degree in marketingassociate degree in business administrationassociate degree in project managementassociate degree in finance