Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RE Tech Advisors is a woman-led consulting firm delivering engineering, technology, and sustainability solutions through ESG expertise. The Data Services Associate supports sustainability data management by collecting, entering, validating, and maintaining property-level ESG and utility data across assigned client portfolios. The role coordinates with property teams, utility companies, vendors, and internal departments to ensure accurate and timely data for analytics, reporting, benchmarking, and assurance work.
Responsibilities
- Support property onboarding by coordinating with property management teams to gather essential information for each property across assigned portfolios
- Create, update, and maintain property‑level data in internal databases and tools, including ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager to benchmark properties in accordance with established procedures
- Lead preparation for property manager ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager training by coordinating across other departments to ensure presentation materials are updated
- Coordinate with property management teams and utility companies to collect utility data to be pushed directly to or update manually in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
- Maintain utility data collection quarterly and annual for manual updated data from utility companies
- Obtain, review, and validate building documentation to ensure alignment with data provided by property teams; follow up as needed to resolve gaps or inconsistencies
- Communicate with property teams and third‑party data vendors to collect required data and resolve routine questions
- Monitor data timeliness and quality, following up on missing, late, or inconsistent information on a regular basis
- Assist other departments with mass property management reach out by using mail merge
- Support routine data quality checks and corrections within defined workflows
- Complete uility data upload from invoices by using AI bill reading tools across several different properties at once
- Support the offboarding of properties after disposition by ensuring utility data is updated through the sell date and creating copies to ensure data is not lost after the sale
- Track time accurately and bill to appropriate job codes and labor categories
- Follow all company policies, processes, and documentation standards
- Escalate issues, edge cases, or process exceptions to Leads or Managers rather than resolving independently
- Perform other duties as needed and assigned
Skills
- Strong attention to detail and execution discipline
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines
- Strong time management skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to manage assigned tasks and daily priorities and follow established schedules
- Initiative to assign one's own task when scheduled tasks are not taking place
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and within different team settings
- Ability to follow established processes, templates, and quality standards consistently
- Comfort performing repetitive, accuracy‑driven tasks with minimal variation
- Strong record/note keeping skills
- Willingness to ask questions and escalate issues rather than guess
- Clear and professional written and verbal communication skills sufficient for routine coordination with property teams and internal stakeholders
- Working knowledge of ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager or ability to learn quickly
- Knowledge with online collaboration and file sharing tools, such as SharePoint and Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
- Some professional work experience in data support (collection and entry), operations, administration, or a related execution‑focused role
- Some experience with organizational tools
- Some experience with presentations
- No sponsorship available for this position
- Candidates must have current work authorization in the U.S.; visa sponsorship is not available for this position
- Experience with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager a plus, but not required
- Experience with utility data a plus, but not required
Benefits
- 401(k) Plan with Company Match: Currently match contributions dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of eligible pay; immediate vesting.
- Employer provided medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, Employee Assistance Program and accident & illness coverage.
- Employer provided basic life insurance and AD&D valued at 50K coverage amount with the option for voluntary buy up for additional coverage.
- Flexible non-accrual vacation; company holidays per policy.
- For California employees, this is separate from California paid sick leave, if applicable.
- Business travel and related expenses reimbursed per company policy.
- Full-time remote position in the Dallas Fort Worth area, with required office attendance during onboarding and training and periodic travel into the office for meetings, as needed.
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