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Energy Auditor
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SALARY
LEVEL: Grade 28 – Skilled Trades Salary
Schedule
REPORTS
TO: Energy Services Director
AREA
OF FOCUS: Energy Services
JOB SUMMARY: Performs
comprehensive energy audits and detailed work orders on houses. This is a key position in the Energy Services
Department since the Energy Auditor details work to be done. Work orders must
be appropriate to the situation, measurements accurate, and priorities followed
in order for crews and office staff to perform at their optimum level and to
realize maximum energy savings for the client. Performs energy saving analyses,
provides client energy and safety education, and assists with product research,
materials ordering, tool and equipment maintenance, and inventory.
ESSENTIAL
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include
the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Supports and
upholds Couleecap’s mission to fight poverty and promote self-sufficiency for
individuals by helping to identify needs, mobilize resources, and provide
quality services.
- Initiates client contact after approved application is
received.
- Organizes and schedules houses to be inspected.
- Trained in Pressure Diagnostics and identifies problem
areas in homes for crews.
- Performs furnace/water heater inspections to ensure
safe operation.
- Creates work orders and enters information into
WIS-WAP computerized reporting system.
- Fills out all appropriate paperwork in client file.
- Assists the Inventory Manager in ordering special
items, landlord issues, and special contractor work.
- Performs in-progress and post inspections (quality
control) as directed by Energy Services Director.
- Approves change orders in cooperation with Inventory
Manager, Energy Services Director and crews.
- Attends meetings and training sessions.
- Educates clients about energy conservation measures.
- Prepares and submits reports in a timely and accurate
manner.
- Responsible for maintenance of tools and equipment
(furnace analyzers, testing equipment).
- Responsible for assisting with the QA Monitoring
process as needed and directed by the Energy Services Director. Duties
- may range from just coordinating up to and including
managing the inspection process in its entirety.
- Responsible for learning and becoming proficient with
the various software and database programs used by the department, such as
Microsoft Office, NEAT/MHEA electronic audit, and other diagnostic programs.
- Ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with
people from all cultures or belief systems.
SUPERVISORY
RESPONSIBILITIES: None.
QUALIFICATION
REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an
individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are
representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION
and/or EXPERIENCE: Requires two years of education beyond high
school; junior college, community college, or university; or 4 to 7 years
previous experience; or equivalent combination of education and
experience.
LANGUAGE
SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents such
as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to effectively
present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers,
clients, and other employees of the organization.
MATHEMATICAL
SKILLS: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such
as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area,
circumference, and volume. Ability to
accurately measure window and doors.
REASONING
ABILITY: Ability to define problems, collect data,
establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive
variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with
several abstract and concrete variables. Ability to assess a problem and
develop solutions, translating these into an organized, concise, accurate Field
Data Collection Form and Work Order. Ability to establish and maintain good
working relationships with clients, landlords, contractors, weatherization
personnel, and the public.
CERTIFICATES,
LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Must be able to successfully complete the
Energy Auditor training curriculum as defined by the State of Wisconsin and
become a certified Energy Auditor within 18 months of beginning employment. Access
to reliable, licensed, insured driver and transportation.
OTHER SKILLS
and ABILITIES: Five years or more experience in building
trades field; thorough knowledge of carpentry skills and energy conservation
methods; thorough knowledge of insulation and other required materials; or any
combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge,
skills and abilities highly preferred. Knowledge of the operation of furnaces
and distribution systems, boilers, and water heaters, furnace analyzer operations;
Steady State Efficiency; and specific software such as Windows, Microsoft,
Word, Excel, and spreadsheets highly preferred. Thorough knowledge of carpentry
skills, weatherization products, insulation, and building materials,
construction techniques, energy saving techniques, and codes highly preferred. Ability
to work without direct supervision. Ability to plan and coordinate home visits
to minimize excess driving time. Ability to establish and maintain good working
relationships with clients, landlords, contractors, weatherization personnel,
and the public. Stability, reliability, resourcefulness, good judgment, tact,
and courtesy. Ability to keep good records and make reports.
PHYSICAL
DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are
representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform
the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the
duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk up and down
stairs; sit while in vehicles and in the office setting; reach with hands and
arms using a tape measure and opening scuttle doors; talk while informing
clients, landlords, and utility representatives of work to be performed and
making appointments; and listen to client concerns. The employee is
occasionally required to stand, climb or balance on ladders and balance on
ceiling joists in attics; stoop in attics; kneel while inspecting houses; and
crouch and crawl in attics and crawlspaces. The employee must frequently lift
and/or move up to 10 pounds (furnace analyzer and briefcase) and occasionally
lift and/or move up to 50 pounds (ladder).
WORK
ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described
here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the
essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While
performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in outside
weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts
and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid
conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of
electric shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.