Water Utility Technician

About the role

This essential position plays a critical role in maintaining the safety, reliability, and quality of the City's water treatment and distribution systems. The Water Operator helps ensure the continuous delivery of safe drinking water to the community by monitoring wells and treatment systems, repairing infrastructure, conducting inspections and testing, and responding to customer service needs. This role is considered essential critical infrastructure personnel and may be required to respond during emergencies, natural disasters, or catastrophic events to support the continuity of City operations.

Responsibilities

• Monitors and maintains assigned wells; verifies wells are operating correctly; checks chlorination levels.
• Repairs water main breaks and service lines; flushes, repairs, and replaces fire hydrants; rebuilds and repairs water meters.
• Performs service calls to check for water leaks throughout the water system; provides aid to customers.
• Turns water services on or off at City connections when starting and closing accounts.
• Collects monthly required bacteriological samples; delivers samples to assigned laboratory for testing.
• Operates water treatment plant; calculates the chlorine demand of raw ground water for proper disinfection; monitors and maintains chlorination system.
• Gathers water usage readings for monthly billing; disconnects customers' water for non-payment of utility bills.
• Inspects and cleans groundwater storage tanks; prepares tanks for State inspections.
• Repairs and pours concrete driveways and sidewalks.
• Performs other duties as required, including services or duties outside the usual scope during emergencies or catastrophic events.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Two (2) years of water utility training and experience; OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Knowledge of Department policies and procedures, City codes and ordinances, and water distribution and production systems.
• Valid State Driver's License required; Class B Commercial Driver's License may be required.
• Groundwater Treatment Plant Operator Class C license.

Skills

• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Providing quality customer service.
• Performing basic mathematical calculations.

Physical Demands and Working Environment

This position requires climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions. Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Employee may be subjected to moving mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, fumes, odors, dusts, gases, poor ventilation, chemicals, oils, extreme temperatures, inadequate lighting, work space restrictions, and intense noises.