Anode Crew Member I

Tarrant Regional Water District; Trinidad (TX); On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Tarrant Regional Water District seeks an Anode Crew Member to support full-time staff in data collection and cathodic protection system maintenance across pipelines and facilities.

You will work as part of a crew performing vegetation maintenance, inspections, repair, and equipment operation, with emphasis on safety, reliability, and teamwork.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma required; CDL A/B with Hazmat/Tanker preferred.
• Experience with field maintenance and hydraulics is essential.
• Ability to read maps and understand cathodic protection concepts.
• Mechanically inclined with experience operating common field equipment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, monitor, and install zinc anodes and cathodic protection measures.
• Assist data collection and modify existing protection system.
• Operate and maintain field equipment and vehicles as needed.
• Perform vegetation maintenance, repairs, and routine cleaning of pipelines and facilities.
• Assist in various light-duty tasks across operations and grounds.

Skills

Hydraulics understanding

Read map books

Cathodic protection principles

Mechanically inclined

Weed eater / mower experience

Trailer operation

Tractor operation

Welding / cutting (optional)

Education

High School Diploma

Valid Texas CDL Class A or B

Hazmat with Tanker endorsement

Tools

Dump truck

Backhoe

Tractor

Drilling equipment

Power tools (welding, chipping guns, grinders)

Job description

The Anode Crew Member will assist full-time staff in data collection, maintaining and modifying the existing cathodic protection system. They will work as part of a team to assist other operations departments with other duties such as vegetation maintenance, structure inspection and repair, and manual labor.

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. 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 this position.

• Maintain, monitor, and install new zinc anodes, cathodic protection test stations, and all other pipeline protection measures in the field
• Assist in data collection, maintaining and modifying the existing cathodic protection system
• Utilize various equipment, such as dump trucks, trailers, backhoes, utility tractors, drilling equipment, trenchers, welding equipment, hand and power tools, air power tools, shovels, etc., to complete assigned tasks
• Perform vegetation maintenance, painting, and cleaning on pipelines, floodway, ROW or in operations facilities/property
• Build and/or paint fences
• Operate chainsaws
• Pull and park utility trailers to job sites
• Utilize weed eaters, zero turn mowers and/or standard mowers
• Pick up trash along ROW and/or floodway
• Maintain familiarity with strategic District levels of service
• Continuous improvement monitoring and innovation efforts
• Perform other duties as required

Required Experience:

• Less than one (1) year of experience
• Ability to understand hydraulics on the pipeline
• Ability to read and comprehend map books
• Understanding of cathodic protection principles
• Mechanically inclined
• Prior experience using a weed eater and/or standard mower
• Pulling and backing up utility trailers
• Ability to accomplish one of the following:
• Operate a tractor
• Grind, cut, or weld
• Light fleet mechanical repairs

Desired Experience:

• Prior experience with welding, equipment operation (dump truck, backhoe, tractor, drilling truck, trencher, etc.), and/or power tools (chipping guns, impact wrenches, cutting torches, grinders, etc.)
• Prior experience using a zero-turn mower
• Prior experience painting

Desired Education/Certification/License:

• High School Diploma
• Valid Texas CDL Class A or B without restriction E
• Hazmat (H) with Tanker (N) endorsement

Success Factors/Job Competencies:

• Ability to correspond through oral and written communications professionally and effectively
• Professional and effective oral and written communications to internal and external recipients
• Perform general maintenance of TRWD structures and grounds including pipeline and floodway
• Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks
• Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations
• Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude
• Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations
• Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job
• Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done
• Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations
• Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace
• Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges
• Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles
• Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems
• Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical
• Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hand to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk and hear. Employees must regularly lift and/or move up to 80 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee typically resides out in the field for long periods of time exposing the employee to weather conditions prevalent at the time. They will periodically work in buildings without climate control. This position will also work in confined spaces, underground, in diches, on water ways such as lakes or rivers, and at various heights.