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PAY RATE: $19.32/HR
Plant City, FL
Installs, maintains, and repairs water mains, water service connections, fire hydrants and valves. Raises, lowers, or relocates water mains and meters to allow clearance for other utilities or improvements. Ditch Witch experience needed.
Position Summary:
Works independently or under the general supervision of the Maintenance Specialist III, the Maintenance Specialist II is responsible for maintaining, repairing, and extending all appurtenances of the water distribution system including piping, valves services, and hydrants.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The following duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.
- Acts as the working leader of a small crew.
- Installs, maintains, and repairs water mains, water service connections, fire hydrants and valves.
- Raises, lowers, or relocates water mains and meters to allow clearance for other utilities or improvements.
- Sets meter boxes and water meters and records meter numbers for a generated work order. Records time and materials used for warehouse inventory.
- Measures, cuts, and connects sections of pipe, using tapping machine, pipe cutter, thread, reamer, wrenches,
assorted tools, glue, and couplers.
- Excavates under very dangerous conditions to make emergency repairs, such as digging up a main line under
water, around power lines, gas lines, telephone lines, fiber optic, sewer lines and/or storm water.
- Compacts soil in roads to meet densities.
- Maintains road cuts until completed by road crew.
- Conducts post-construction finishing work to grade out the surface, applies topsoil, grass seed and/or sod grass.
- Obtains and sets up equipment, tools and materials needed for work. Determines best way to set up job site,
may use the M. O. T. series 600. Sets up barricades and other warning devices to channel traffic around construction areas or other hazards.
- Operates power driven machinery such as air compressor, sled packer, jumping jack packer and high pressure
pump or other similarly sized equipment.
- Drives trucks and operates heavy and/or specialized equipment, such as small excavator, large excavator,
backhoe, front end loaders, dump trucks, line locating equipment, leak locating equipment, valve locating equipment, and a directional boring machine requiring extensive training to operate.
- Maintains a daily register of parts on trucks for water repairs. Maintains equipment and tools. Evaluates inventory
on truck, restocks parts as needed. Services truck on a weekly basis by checking fluid and oil levels.
- Responds to complaints and answers questions from the public; warns public of hazards and alerts
public before commencing work, which may inconvenience them. Notifies customers of necessity for interruptions of water service.
- Makes customer service calls to investigate and correct water quality, leaks, or pressure problems.
Communicates with customers concerning pressure problems or water service complaints.
- Works under all weather conditions to make repair and restore services to customers.
- Reads diagrams, maps, blueprints, and work orders.
- Makes written and oral reports of work completed and in progress and work needing to be done by others.
- Locates valves and shuts down water main in an emergency.
- Opens and closes main valves manually for water main extensions or repairs.
- Keeps detailed records of all daily activities. Prepares and submits weekly reports of material and equipment
used.
- Performs supervisory duties in the absence of Maintenance Specialist III, as needed.
- All employees will be cross-trained in water, wastewater, and/or reclaimed water for equivalent positions. The
employee may be directed to change positions at any time of employment without notice on a permanent or temporary basis.
Minimum Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to carry out each essential duty or responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities; education and/or experience; and certificates or licenses required in order to fill the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to work with various hand and power tools to include shoveling, and mechanical repairs.
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
- Ability to take independent action without constant supervision.
- Ability to make logical decisions based on training and experience.
- Ability to work in water under pressure and related jobs.
- Ability to work in a responsible manner when dealing with customers and the public.
- Ability to work in/or around traffic, working around underground utilities electric, gas, phone/ fiber optics,
cable TV, stormwater, sewer lines, etc.
- Must be dedicated to providing support to other employees in a team atmosphere.
- Must be willing to work in different areas of the department or city as required.
- Must have a good safety record.
- Must have a professional appearance and mannerism.
- Must be able to work in confined spaces, and in underground trenching.
Education and Experience:
- Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of an equivalent diploma.
Certificates and Licenses:
- Must have a valid Florida Driver’s License and be insurable by the City’s current insurance provider.
- Must obtain Class B CDL with Tanker endorsement within 2 years of regular status employment.
- Level III Distribution System Operator’s license must be obtained within 2 years regular status employment.
Special Requirements:
- Must qualify and be available for “Call Duty” within two (2) years of regular status employment.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- May oversee crew of 1 to 4 employees in the absence of Maintenance Specialist III.
