Firstenergy Pennsylvania Electric Company
We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers' lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger. Firstenergy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, Firstenergy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.
Responsibilities
Under close supervision, as an entry level installer, assist employees of higher classification in the field or shop, in connection with inspecting, testing, adjusting, repairing, installing and removing electric metering and associated equipment. Under direct supervision, as they become qualified through acquired experience, training, and testing, does such work requiring a minor degree of skill, and perform other duties such as:
- Assisting meter techs of higher classification
- Installation, exchanging, and removing self-contained, single-phase meters up to 250 volts
- Inspecting, testing, and calibrating self-contained single-phase meters up to 250 volts
- By-passing customer loads without interrupting service
- Inspecting installations for evidence of diversion or other irregularities related to theft of service, foreign or improper connections
- Inspecting single phase installations in connection with high bill complaints, or low consumption; performing operations such as testing, checking customer connections and equipment, as well as customer wiring for defects and other irregularities and reporting those conditions
- Connecting/disconnecting service entrances
- Verifying suitability of watthour meters and associated equipment assigned to installations, checking customers' connected load
- Reading meters as needed
- Carrying out disconnect orders for non-payment of bills and reconnect orders
- Making required meter and other service reports
- Issuing material charges and credits, maintaining an adequate supply of meters and other materials on assigned vehicle
- Receiving, storing and issuing meters, meter instrument parts, tools and supplies, and performing the necessary clerical work