Utility Worker I​/II - Water Distribution Department

UTILITY WORKER I/II - WATER DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT

The Town is looking to hire Water Distribution Utility Worker I/II. This position is responsible for performing maintenance, repair, and construction duties throughout the Town’s water system. A Utility I/II working within the Water Distribution Department performs regular, recurring, and non-routine tasks including water meter reading, maintenance of meters and meter boxes, installation and repair of waterlines and fire hydrants, and other duties as assigned.

Some tasks require a moderate level of proficiency in operating complex equipment. This position is the first in a series that requires certification for promotion. Work is performed primarily as part of a crew. To learn more please review the job description:
Utility I/II Worker

This Utility Worker assigned to Water Distribution is responsible for performing maintenance, repair, and construction duties throughout the Town’s water system. This person performs regular, recurring, and non-routine tasks including water meter reading, maintenance of meters and meter boxes, installation and repair of waterlines and fire hydrants, and other duties as assigned. Some tasks require a moderate level of proficiency in operating complex equipment.

This position is the first in a series that requires certification for promotion. Work is performed primarily as part of a crew.

• As directed and under supervision, operate a variety of hand, power, gas, light, and heavy or mounted equipment to accomplish assigned tasks. This includes loading and transporting equipment to the work site using truck and trailer.
• Perform assigned work to install, maintain, and repair water system including water lines, meters, and hydrants. Maintain facility and vegetation.
• Flush waterlines and operate water valves.
• Assist with locating and marking utility locate requests.
• Inspect water system installations at construction sites.
• Perform maintenance and repairs on reservoirs, pumps, and booster pumps including monitoring reservoir levels and adjusting as necessary under supervision.
• Perform monthly reading of water meters and repair meters as necessary.
• Perform field water quality sampling such as color, turbidity, PH, and chlorine residual.
• Perform routine equipment maintenance and minor field repair.
• Perform work in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations and within mandated and appropriate safety standards.
• Maintain and promote excellent relations and communications with co-workers and supervisor.

• Interact with the public in a courteous manner and refer inquiries to an employee of higher classification as appropriate.
• Perform duties of similar complexity in any Town department as required or assigned including assistance with traffic control. This position may regularly be assigned to work throughout the Town’s water system including the watershed and treatment plant.
• Follow oral and written instructions and read equipment instruction and maintenance manuals, drawings, schematics, and construction plans.
• Document maintenance or inventory records, logs, and work orders.

Preferred skills include the ability to operate heavy equipment such as a backhoe or excavator, front end loader, dump truck, tanker truck, and vactor equipment and a variety of hand and power tools such as drills, wrenches, shovel, grinder, chainsaw, reciprocating saw, table saw, jigsaw, tapping machine, pipe threader, jackhammer, cutting or acetylene torch, trash pump, compactors, and air compressor. Dump truck operation requires maintenance of a valid commercial driver’s license (CDL).

A willingness to learn all of the above will be considered.

Work is primarily performed outdoors in every kind of weather condition including in wet, muddy, and confined spaces. Duties include heavy manual labor for extended periods and require physical stamina and agility sufficient to stand, walk, climb, crawl, and bend in confined spaces for the duration of a shift. Depending on task performed, the noise intensity can range from moderate to…