Our Client, a Public Utility that provides natural gas and electricity to the majority of Michigan's 10 million residents is seeking a talented and self-driven individual for needs serving in the role of Utility Permit Specialist for a 12 Month Contract opportunity.

Our client prefers candidates who have skills and knowledge of building or utility design and have an understanding of construction in the field and general engineering concepts.

Position may need to travel to other client Service Centers occasionally to support those areas as needed.

The selected candidate will have the option to work remotely as long as client and / or department policies allow.

The Permit Coordination team is responsible for reviewing all preplanned work for needed permits, applying for permits, detailed permit tracking, bond recovery, among many other functions that support the goals and objectives of Geospatial & Gas Asset Management (G&GAM).

Duties :

This role will provide technical support and perform tasks including departmental workload balancing and organization, generation of various departmental reports at regular intervals, planning and coordination of meetings, and data audits to ensure statewide consistency.

More complex support may include SAP workload monitoring and permit date management, visual management support and updates, business plan and metric reporting, and program specific milestone reporting.

The position will function as a technical support role for gas permitting in their assigned area. This will include the following responsibilities :

• Monitor and utilize SAP tasks for each permit
• Complete check requests / bond requests & invoicing for jobs that have fees come in after the fact, including calculation of permit fees
• Notifies to city / state / township of construction dates
• Start notices
• Completion notices
• Database management for :
• Permit Tracking - ensure understanding of all permits applied for / received
• Inspection Escrow Tracking - ensure understanding of all outstanding inspection escrows to ensure proper refunds
• Bond Tracking - ensure understanding of all outstanding bonds / ensure refunds are requested and obtained
• Communicate with Restoration department on clean-up schedule
• Communicate with Scheduling on construction schedule
• Track and coordinate all permits and bonds so we can better understand and quantify the annual amount of work and spend in this area
• Deliver and pick up permits at Permit Agency buildings
• This position will primarily support the Livonia and Howell territories with the expectation to help other areas of the state when needed.

Last updated : 2024-04-29