Metering Specialist

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A market-leading renewable energy company seeks a Metering Specialist for a 12-month contract in central London. The role involves managing the metering lifecycle, ensuring compliance, and providing expert knowledge in metering practices. Candidates should have an engineering degree and at least 5 years' experience in the utilities sector, along with strong interpersonal and risk management skills.

Qualifications

• 5 years plus experience in utilities sector metering.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into commercial impact.
• Good understanding of regulatory and legislative requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end metering lifecycle including installation and compliance.
• Act as subject matter expert and provide training.
• Ensure compliance with Health Network Metering regulations.

Skills

High personal impact

Excellent presentation skills

Risk management

Education

Engineering degree or formal Electronics/controls qualification

Job description

Job Description

We have an immediate contract requirement for a Metering Specialist to work for our market leading renewable energy client. This is expected to last at least 12 months & will be based up to 50% of the working week at our client’s central London head office.

As a Metering Specialist, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end metering lifecycle, including installation, maintenance, performance monitoring, and compliance with industry regulations. You will work closely with internal teams, third-party suppliers, and regulatory bodies to ensure metering systems operate efficiently and provide a seamless experience for customers, acting as the subject matter expert for metering within our clients UK operation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Act as Metering and communications subject matter expert within our clients UK operation and support regional teams with the construction of their projects.
• Maintain the metering requirements and Standards for our clients construction projects and maintenance operations. Ensure our requirements are compatible with internal processes including commercial, operations, asset management, and legal requirements
• Provide expert knowledge in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AIM).
• Supporting the projects teams at initial design stages to offer advice on the selection of hardware, controls and metering equipment to ensure improved levels of reliability and maintainability, designing, developing, installing, managing and/or maintaining equipment and software as required.
• Implement and continually review the metering strategy to ensure business needs, both current and future are maintained and developed.
• Responsible for the relationship management of the metering contracts.
• Collaboration in the development of medium-term maintenance strategies and derivation of maintenance concepts for the metering assets.
• Provide leadership in the market and influence the industry and key drivers – policy consultations, technical guideline and standard consultations, etc.

• OperationsParticipation in regional planning processes for major maintenance operations.
• Establishment and management of a reporting system on metering performance back to the business.
• Provide metering training programme for our clients engineering and operational teams.
• Review acceptance tests and commissioning of metering systems and equipment.
• Responsible for the implementation of the HPAN register and maintaining the metering assets central database.
• Supporting the project team with the commissioning of the AMR equipment's and act as an escalation point for any AMR issues.
• Manage warranty information for our metering assets and lead any warranty claims
• Collate records and report nationally on the operational performance of our, metering assets.

• ComplianceEnsure our client is compliant to the Heat Network Metering and Billing Regulations and Heat Network technical assurance scheme.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety, regulations, technical integrity and quality, including required authority approvals
• Ensuring that maintenance and orderly filing of documents relevant to metering are maintained with the operational Regions.
• Compilation of metering data for reporting internal and to external parties (e.g. regulators, auditors)

Qualifications and Experience

• Ideally you will have an Engineering degree qualified or hold a formal Electronics/controls qualification such as Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent recognised training

• 5 years plus experience working with metering in the utilities sector and operational environments

• Experience in network infrastructure, architecture, and administration

Knowledge and Skills

• High personal impact combined with distinct customer , entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen

• Ability to translate technical requirements into commercial impact, and to identify and manage risks in changing and challenging environments.

• Demonstrated experience and good understanding of operational requirements from commercial and technical point of view

• Excellent presentation and communication skills internally and externally

• Able to influence key stakeholders including local authorities, developers, and energy partners

• Risk management –strong understanding of commercial and technical risks and how it impacts the business

• Good understanding of customer needs and customer types (local authorities, developers, commercial customers) and their drivers

• Excellent engineering skills with good understanding of commercial approach, risks and challenges

• Good knowledge of regulatory and legislative requirements

• Strong knowledge of zero carbon solutions and policy trends

For more information on this excellent opportunity with our market leading renewable energy client, please contact the recruitment team on 0207 7479774 or apply online & we will get back to you.