Description
Department Summary
The Scheduler (Maintenance & Construction) position supports Energy Operations and requires monitoring, planning and scheduling of gas and electric workloads, working with union employees, Field Leaders, Team Leaders, Statewide Planning.
Job Responsibilities
- Applicant must be willing to travel and work flexible hours as needed for storm restoration and scheduling coverage.
- Responsibility involves coordination of materials with Supply Chain, coordination of equipment and vehicles with Fleet Services, the assigning and tracking workload, interpreting monthly work plans when create weekly schedules, conducting weekly meetings, and supporting the storm operations.
- Additional responsibilities will include supporting the CE Way through problem solving and waste elimination initiatives.
- Storm support is also a requirement of the role and may include dispatching / ARCOS support / wire guard support, or any other tasks needed to support storm operations.
- Employee will be required to become efficient with OMS (Outage Management Systems) and any other additional storm support systems as needed.
- This position also requires excellent communication skills, customer service, teamwork, the ability to read construction prints, understanding order types, capital and O&M, intermediate Excel skills, and the ability to create and present PowerPoint presentations.
This position will be located at the Jackson, Michigan Service Center.
Required Qualifications
- A High School Diploma OR GED.
Preferred Qualifications
- College level courses or a degree in a scientific or technical field.
- Natural Gas or Electric Utility experience.
- Operations scheduling experience.
- SAP (back office) and basic CRM7 (front office).
- Knowledgeable in Service Suite (OMAR).
- Proficient Microsoft Excel and basic PowerPoint skills.
- Storm support experience.
Essential Functions
- Performs technical support functions and more complex tasks including establishing workload and organizing and conducting assignments according to deadlines.
- Sets up tech support systems including record maintenance, data submission, and project management.
- Provides backup department support.
- Prepares reports, and tech support material as directed from time to time.
- Maintains confidentiality.
- Performs or establishes procedures for tech support functions and actions including records, tracking of information, maintaining logs/spreadsheet, and other similar technical support.
- Under general direction, prepares special or one-time reports, summaries, or replies to inquiries, selecting relevant information from a variety of sources such as reports, documents, correspondence, other areas of the Company, etc.
- Ensures that requests for action or information are relayed to appropriate staff members; ensures that information is furnished in a timely manner; decides whether a higher authority should be notified of important or emergency matters.
- Periodically evaluates process and program effectiveness and takes action to maintain continuous improvement.
- Follows all safety rules and procedures and contributes to the safety of co-workers and the general public.
- Have aptitude and ability to learn and perform the duties of the job including learning new designs reflecting new equipment.
- Successfully be able to evaluate design alternatives to determine safest and most economical designs.
- Willing and able to follow instruction, assist in training of co-workers, and cooperate with other employees and customers.
- Performs responsibilities in a manner that clearly shows effective communication and cooperation and that promotes open exchange of information, respect, high ethical standards and professionalism.
- Maintains work areas in a clean and orderly manner.
Contact
Consumers Energy
1 Energy Plz
Jackson
Michigan United States
www.consumersenergy.com
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