A Meter Readers Supervisor leads the field team that reads utility meters — owning route management, accuracy, safety, and the daily work of getting consumption data back to billing on schedule.
Most days are paced by the route schedule and the field issues that interrupt it. You're managing route assignments, monitoring read accuracy, handling difficult-access situations or customer complaints, and partnering with billing on read exceptions or estimates. AMI meter rollouts have reshaped the work in many utilities.
The collaboration is constant. You're working with billing, customer service, field service, and IT or AMI program teams. Friction usually lives at the handoffs from field to billing — re-reads, exception handling, account-specific notes. Safety incidents (dogs, ice, gates) get heavy attention.
People who tend to thrive enjoy field-team operational leadership with constant problem-solving and outdoor work and don't mind the weather or terrain demands. If you need an office role or distance from physical operations, the always-outside nature can wear thin.
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