Power Meter and Billing Specialist

1 month ago

Midrand, South Africa Optimal Growth Technologies Full time

Power Metering and Billing Specialist

Role purpose:

  • End to end ownership of the AC/DC site power metering on a national basis, while providing technical support to the finance and property departments in all technical aspects of power billing related matters, with a focus on ensuring accurate billing.
  • This includes metering solution design requirements that will meet both the AC and DC billing requirements.
  • The role requires focus on the various related site-specific operational and maintenance requirements to ensure the effective and accurate billing of the owned, managed and supported power infrastructure.

Accountabilities

Metering

  • Realise site-specific metering strategies for different customers based on the design support from the power solution architects.
  • Support the operations and maintenance partners to ensure metering capabilities on site are never compromised and technically operational all of the time.
  • Lead, plan and oversee the testing, installation and maintenance of AC and DC billing meters.
  • Provide technical support on all metering and billing related matters.
  • Design and lead technical metering solutions to ensure sound financial management in all billing and metering activities and support the management team with all related requirements.
  • Identify world class leading technical metering solutions for both AC and DC requirements.
  • Responsible for the development, coordination and implementation of weekly and daily work plans and schedules on a real-time basis for metering operations.

Thought Leader

  • Focus on supporting the power as a service engineering team as well as leadership team on designing unique and innovative solutions.
  • Solve complex metering problems involving meter theory, vector analysis and meter communications.

Supplier /Contract Management

  • Develop structures to monitor, evaluate and manage supplier, contractors, and 3rd party's performance against their contracted scope of work, and benchmark best practice.
  • Technical support of the commercial, finance and property teams

Financial Management & Reporting

  • Support the commercial, finance and property teams to ensure that accurate financial management can be applied both internally and externally, with a site-specific profit and loss view on power usage.
  • Develop dashboards to enable management visibility on power usage and recovery, ensuring the full recovery on actual costs incurred and recovered.
  • Design proactive reporting to identify technical solutions to drive better financial management.

Compliance Management

  • Support the preparation for ISO compliance and certification.
  • Ensure all technical billing and metering solutions are designed, implemented, and managed appropriately.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

  • Deep understanding of existing, new, and emerging technologies.
  • Strong technical experience across multiple delivery areas and vendors.
  • Technical problem-solving skills, supporting management to be able to navigate through difficult negotiations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to distil complex technical concepts into simple terms, with strong persuasion skills to gain support for principles, standards, and change.
  • Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across programmes.
  • Proven track record on key outputs and related disciplines.
  • Proven track record of the ability to apply technical knowledge in the analyses of accurate comparisons and reviews of various solution designs and the development of realistic return on investment operational financial models.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

  • Degree or Diploma
  • Grade 12 is essential
  • Possessing a 3-year related qualification, such as a diploma or bachelor's degree, would be advantageous (preference for an electrical qualification)
  • Minimum of 5 -8 years of either electrical or power metering design and implementation of metering solutions, with hands-on working experience on the design and maintenance of multi-tenant, combined metering systems.

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