Utility Maintenance Technician

Job Opportunities

The City of Marion is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Utility Maintenance Technician. This is an opportunity to be a part of a dynamic, experienced team of skilled professionals dedicated to the operation, repair, and maintenance of the City’s water distribution and sewer collection lines.

The City offers a comprehensive employee benefits package, including employer‑paid medical, dental, vision and life insurance; enrollment in the Local Government Employees’ Retirement System; a 5% employer contribution to a supplemental retirement plan with no required employee match; paid holidays; and paid time off.

The City’s Utility Maintenance division of Public Works is responsible for the installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of water distribution and sewer collection lines and related appurtenances, including lift stations. We are seeking candidates with some experience in semi‑skilled labor as well as a Class B CDL and an NC DOT‑approved Work Zone Installer certification, or the ability to obtain both within a specified period of time.

This position performs a variety of unskilled, semi‑skilled, and some skilled trades tasks in the construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of water distribution and wastewater collection lines and appurtenances, and the operation, maintenance, and repair of pump stations. Work involves operating a variety of tools and light, medium, and heavy equipment to construct, repair and replace sections of distribution and collection lines and other infrastructure;

making daily rounds of lift stations and ensuring they are functioning properly; adding odor control; mowing grass; weed eating; cleaning around lift stations; checking and cleaning bar screens; clearing pump stations of debris; checking the generators; topping off fluids; making repairs to pump station pumps and equipment; and assisting with other assigned projects. Work may require a significant amount of record keeping of work activities, especially with regard to the pump stations.

Essential duties include, but are not limited to:

• Installs, maintains, and replaces water and sewer lines, hydrants and valves; repairs main and service line breaks; ensures locates have been performed before beginning work.
• Operates construction equipment such as dump trucks, loaders, tampers, trenchers, air compression‑driven equipment such as jackhammers and boring machines, backhoes, and other related light, medium, and heavy equipment; performs preventive maintenance and minor repairs to equipment; operates a variety of hand tools.
• Makes water and sewer taps; installs fire hydrants; sets meter boxes and installs meters and registers.
• Assists with determining sources of leaks and repairing leaking lines; determines if leak is in main or service line; performs maintenance and repairs on valves.
• Uses shovels to finish grading trenches for construction of water and sewer lines; fits pipe; uses hand tools and equipment to back fill trenches; ensures proper fall of sewer lines.
• Operates jet rodder machine to unstop sewers; drains lines with pressurized hoses; cleans stopped sewer lines with rods, rakes, and shovels; installs grease blocks; conducts smoke testing of sewer lines; operates camera to inspect sewer and drain lines for blockages or breaks.
• Installs and maintains manholes; repairs manhole rings and covers; cleans out manholes.
• Exercises water valves and hydrants; flushes hydrants to maintain water quality.
• Cleans and cuts back utility right of ways using mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, etc.
• Participates in snow removal and storm clean up as needed.
• Checks and inspects pump stations at least daily; makes operational adjustments or repairs when problems are detected; documents and reports problems that cannot be repaired immediately; monitors for trends in pump cycling; empties bar screen cans; washes down pits and bar screens; clears debris in and around lift stations and access roads; adds deodorizing chemicals; performs routine preventative maintenance such as greasing, changing oil, replacing filters, packing pumps, etc.
  
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