Job Description

The future is bright at DTE Energy! We are one of the largest Fortune 500 diversified utilities in the United States with an aspiration to be the best-operated energy company in North America and a force for good in the communities we live and serve. We have businesses in 26 different states and are comprised of regulated utility and non-utility businesses. Our utility business provides electric and gas service to approximately 3 million customers. Our non-utility businesses include a diversified portfolio of energy related companies, ranging from gas storage and pipelines to renewable power development.
Recently, DTE Energy has been recognized as an outstanding place to work and has received the following accolades:

* Gallup Great Workplace Award for consecutive years
* Civic 50 Award for corporate citizenship excellence
* Indeeds annual 50 Best Places to Work award for two years running
* Metropolitan Detroits 101 Best and Brightest Companies to work For
* J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Award
* Professional Womens Magazine/Black EOE Journal Best of the Best
* Computerworlds 100 Best Places to Work in IT
* Best Employers for a Healthy Lifestyle Gold Award
* Detroit Free Press Green Leaders Award
DTE Energy is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, citizenship, height, weight, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law.

Testing Required: Field Service Test

Job Summary

The Service Technician Apprentice classification requires that an employee shall be able to perform technician duties on service equipment and technology.

Key Accountabilities

* Must be able to perform the duties of cutting, threading and connecting piping and tubing incidental to the repair, installation or relocation of all appliances and meters
* Alter meter manifolds
* Start and re-light all residential and commercial appliances having hourly inputs of less than 400,000 BTU, including space heating; adjusting, converting and repairing all residential and commercial appliances having hourly inputs of less than 400,000 BTU, except air conditioning
* Install parts when necessary, changing, turning off, setting and removing all meters except industrial, including space heating meters; reading all meters; installation and repairs on any Hex or future AMR systems
* Change dial glass or indexes where necessary on the job site and no soldering required; executing all leak orders; taking gas pressures to locate cause of no gas or poor supply
* Clear services of stoppages
* Install, change, repair and adjust service regulators
* Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the rules and procedures of the Field Operations.

Qualifications

The employee must complete the prescribed course of instruction and pass a subsequent examination on the duties within this classification, and perform the duties assigned under this classification for a total of one hundred eighty (180) days to qualify.

Preferred:

Henry Ford College Power and Trades Pathways Certificate

An employee who has qualified as a Service Technician Apprentice and, thereafter, has performed the duties of such classification for sixty (60) months, (including the three hundred sixty-five (365) day qualification period) and has been rated as qualified at the semi-annual rating next preceding the expiration date of such sixty (60) month period, shall have the opportunity for advanced assignment to the Service Technician classification. When an employee has been rated as not qualified at such semi-annual rating preceding such expiration date, he/she will have the opportunity for advanced assignment to the Service Technician classification at the expiration of the next semi-annual period at which the employee has been rated as qualified.

All Field Service-based employees, including Service Technician Apprentices (STA) and Field Operator Apprentice (FOA) will be expected to do both gas and electric turn ons and disconnects.