Water Meter Installer | Houston, TX

About The Role

The Water Meter Installer reports to the Smart Meter Deployment Operations Manager at Bermex. This position plays a key role in water meter maintenance and measurement. This position also requires a high degree of walking in outdoor environmental conditions, excellent time management, and exceptional flexibility day to day.

What You'll Do

• Water Meter Maintenance: Perform visual inspections of water service for leaks. Identify hazards at meter sites and report accordingly. Properly change out water meters of varying sizes and brands. Properly change out water meter registers for AMI/AMR upgrade.
• Water Meter Reading: Read water meters. Enter data collected in the field into a handheld computer. Assist on additional projects, as necessary.
• Customer Communication: Refer all consumer complaints to the appropriate authorities. Provide general information about the meter services to customers, when applicable. Use telephones, tablets, and/or computers to communicate.
• Other duties as assigned.

About You Must Haves

• Education: Some high school education, must be 18 years of age or older.
• Experience: 1 year experience working in outdoor conditions. Employees will be trained in meter reading.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Nice to Have

• Education: High School Diploma or GED.
• Experience: 1 or more years of experience in the direct exchange of water meters and registers of varying sizes; 1 year of continuous work with the same employer, and/or 6 or more months working.

Your Skills

• Ability to multi-task, and work independently and as a team.
• Exceptional flexibility in daily routines and route scheduling.
• Adequate time management skills to finish daily meter reads in a timely manner, figuring out an efficient way to read meters for that day.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable interacting with management and customers.
• Ability to interact with unhappy or negative customers in a professional manner.
• Excellent attention to detail for problem solving and finding.
• Adequate planning and time management skills to finish a day’s work in a timely manner.
• Drug/Alcohol Testing: Drug/alcohol testing is required.

This role would not be a good fit if you:

• Do not enjoy working independently.
• Do not enjoy working in outdoor conditions.
• Do not enjoy walking long distances.
• Are not flexible and do not enjoy adapting to your current work schedule or routine.
• Do not have adequate planning and time management skills to finish a day’s work in a timely manner.

Where We Work

Employees will begin their day at the local office where they will pick up their company vehicle, equipment, and assignments for the day. We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.