NextEra Energy

Arborist I

Posted on: 22 Mar 2021

Daytona Beach, FL

Job Description

Position Specific Description

This role will support our Power Delivery team based in Daytona Beach, FL.

Job Overview

Employees in this role drive reliability improvements, increase customer experience and satisfaction, and ensure work execution is within established guidelines and budgets.This position responds to elevated customer concerns and makes decisions with impact to company brand. Individuals in this role responds to customer outages during regular weather and natural disasters and ensure compliance with all regulatory and utility comission requirements.
Job Duties & Responsibilities

* Designs, schedules,approves, and oversees work scope for all hardening, preventative maintenance, customer trim requests and capital scope work
* Coordinates with the Distribution Control Center (power systems operations) and electrical repair crews for safe and rapid grounding, line clearing and restoration efforts
* Works with and coordinates with local officials and governments to advocate for legislation and programs which enable customers to plant trees away from power lines
* Supports reactive work including: regularly occuring outages, high impact outage events, major storm restoration and out of area travel
* Oversees a large workforce for day-to-day operations including budgetary approvals and process compliance activities
* Resolves customer complaints and inquires promptly and supports legal requests
* Ensures the inspection of all work performed is in accordance with contract scope and specifications
* Coordinates with engineering teams to ensure proper clearances and vegetation clearing techniques during pre-construction activities
* Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

* High School Grad / GED
* Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
* Experience: 3+ years
* Valid Driver's License (NON CDL)
* ISA Certified Arborist

Preferred Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree
* Experience: 5+ years
* Leadership Experience: 3+ years
* ISA Certif Arborist Utility Specialist
* Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certified

NextEra Energy

Juno Beach, FL

NextEra Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric power to retail and wholesale customers in North America. The company generates electricity through wind, solar, nuclear, and natural gas-fired facilities. It also develops, constructs, and operates long-term contracted assets with a focus on renewable generation facilities, natural gas pipelines, and battery storage projects; and owns, develops, constructs, manages and operates electric generation facilities in wholesale energy markets.

As of December 31, 2018, the company operated approximately 24,500 megawatts of net generating capacity. It serves approximately 10 million people through approximately 5 million customer accounts in the east and lower west coasts of Florida with approximately 75,200 circuit miles of transmission and distribution lines and 645 substations. The company was formerly known as FPL Group, Inc. and changed its name to NextEra Energy, Inc. in 2010. NextEra Energy, Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida.

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