Energy Specialist

Terms of Employment

• W2 Contract, 12 months
• This position is hybrid. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are mandatory in-office days. The office is located in Baltimore, MD.
• Local candidates only
• The schedule is 8:00 AM-4:30 PM or 9:00 AM-5:30 PM.

Overview

Our client is seeking a Business Analyst II to provide business function support for the Smart Grid Operations department. As a Business Analyst, you will develop processes to satisfy the needs and requirements of a diverse financial group that utilize a variety of O&M, Capital and/or balance sheet and clearing accounts.

The Smart Grid Operations department is responsible for ensuring the on-time and accurate readings for the 2-million-meter population through:

• Analyzing meter read and malfunction issues to initiate and track appropriate follow up action.
• Coordinating with internal teams to perform data corrections.
• Fielding inquiries from various stakeholders to remediate metering issues.
• Supporting testing of system upgrades, enhancements, and bug fixes.
• Running routine reports in support of daily operations.
• Monitoring of data related to assets installed in field and any failures related to data synchronization. This will require manual verification in front end as well as querying back-end databases.
• Perform Quality Assurance across the work done and apply checks as required.
• Data analysis using various tools such as Excel, Power BI, Access, SQL Developer.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or an Associates degree and 3-5 years experience in preparing project estimates in the electric and gas utility industry using software and or estimating manuals to expedite estimating preparation process.
• Advanced investigatory methods to analyze multi-faceted issues.
• Expert knowledge of MS Excel, being able to use as a functional tool and manipulate data within including:
• Pivot tables, charting, formulas, VLOOKUP’s, index matches.
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Access and SQL Developer.
• Functional knowledge of PowerBI.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with systems: UIQ, MDM, CC&B and AS8.
• Functional understanding of devices (electric meters, gas modules, network devices, etc.) that compose the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) network.