Title:                          Communications Clerk

Organization Unit: Information Technology Department - Telecommunications Applicable to:       City

Duties:

Under indirect and intermittent supervision, perform field office work of intermediate complexity associated with the various types of communications used throughout Ameren companies; to be the system-wide focal point on telephone, cellular, and paging equipment and facilities; to handle contacts with personnel from telephone, cellular, and paging companies; to analyze traffic studies and to make recommendations relative to possible improvements in communication efficiencies and economies; to prepare routine and special reports; to make field inventories as required and maintain records for all telephone, cellular, and paging equipment and facilities; and to do related work as required. In connection with the above to perform details of work such as:

Process requests for telephone, cellular telephone, and paging additions, removals, changes and repairs.

Process requests for vendor leased lines required for System operations.

Coordinate with vendor personnel on inter-connections between leased and Company owned microwave, fiber optics, and power line carrier current circuits.

Do necessary field work in connection with the planning and installation of new communication equipment in all power plants and other System installations.

Study and make recommendations for the selection of various types of telephone, cellular, and paging equipment used in Ameren companies.

Maintain Company telephone directory and coordinate its preparation and distribution. Assist in the preparation of communication work orders.

Analyze communication traffic studies and make recommendations for changes or additions in facilities. Analyze cellular and paging usage and make recommendations towards optimization.

Maintain records of all Company and vendor leased and rented telephone company equipment and facilities, performing field inventories as required. Maintain records of all Company cellular and paging equipment.

Check telephone company bills for accuracy, segregating personal toll charges for proper collection from employees, and process to Accounts Payable; maintain associated cost­accounting records.

Check records provided by telephone companies against toll charges for personal calls placed directly by employees. Provide audit of telephone, cellular device, or paging device as required.

Prepare routine and other special reports, make analyses and assist in the preparation of miscellaneous data as directed.

Special Responsibilities:

For careful operation of Company automobile.

For holding as confidential information obtained in connection with communication. planning and records.

For proper planning of the acquisition, leasing, and renting of telephone equipment_, and facilities relative to the impact on the continuity of Company operations.

Contacts:

With representatives and service and installation personnel of telephone, cellular, paging, and like companies.

With departmental representatives and personnel in regard to the installation, removal, changes and repairs of telephone equipment and facilities.

Hazards:

Subject to traffic hazards when driving Company automobile and to those hazards incidental to Company power plants, substations or other System installations when working in those areas.

Working Conditions:

When on construction project-assignments or Ameren site visits, subject to weather conditions. Qualifications:

Graduation from high school or the equivalent, supplemented by two years of vocational night school training in business administration or office management.

Three years of experience with the Company.