Utility Systems Specialist - Rotational - UIC Municipal Services

About the role

UIC Municipal Services, LLC is seeking a Utility Systems Specialist (USS) to provide preventative equipment maintenance and repairs.

Responsibilities

• Directing or accomplishing the excavation and repair of buried pipes in arctic conditions
• Repair of individual residential and commercial service connections
• Maintaining, cleaning, and organizing water and wastewater plants
• Maintaining daily reporting to the central office in Utqiaġvik, Alaska
• Reporting emergency incidents when they occur and communicating system issues to engineers
• Keeping daily water and wastewater logs and preparing and sending wastewater samples on a timely basis for monthly discharge monitoring reports
• Interfacing with the public, maintaining a professional demeanor, and working with municipal employees to maintain utility service
• Ensuring Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation compliance of utility plants
• Maintaining a safe working environment and reporting safety concerns to supervisor
• May train, mentor, or directs and oversees local resident utility operators as needed or as requested
• Daily reporting to central office by phone or email
• Performs a variety of duties essential to the operation of a small water and wastewater treatment facility and water distribution and wastewater collection systems
• Inspects, operates, monitors, and maintains a variety of facilities, equipment, and systems involved in various processes of a water and wastewater treatment plants
• Monitors plant operation through visual observation and SCADA
• Regulates flows
• Performs chemical analysis and tests
• Performs a variety of related duties to ensure the facilities final finished water and effluent is of the best quality and compliant with regulatory requirements
• Performs seasonal raw water pumping and treatment to meet anticipated water reserves
• Maintains logs of plant operations – periodic checks on fire hydrants, fire pumps, generators, and valves
• Perform annual inspections of residential service barrel services
• Daily completion of work order reporting – detailing incidents, repairs and call outs conducted by all the W&S staff on all aspects of W&S infrastructure
• Supports the maintenance (preventive and corrective) of the utility plants and systems
• Implements emergency protocols to protect the W&S systems, water reserves and general public safety during W&S emergencies or system failures
• Coordinates between W&S Operators and