Water & Sewer Maintenance Technician I

Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority; Douglasville (GA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-call rotating schedule

Every other Friday off

Job summary

The Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority is seeking a team member for manual labor involving maintenance of water and sewer lines. Responsibilities include location and installation of utilities, mixing cement, and assisting equipment operators. Applicants should have a high school diploma or GED, valid Georgia driver's license, and the ability to lift heavy objects.

Work schedules are Monday through Friday, with an emphasis on safety in potentially hazardous environments. This is a physically demanding role requiring various physical abilities.

Qualifications

• Valid State of Georgia driver's license required.
• Ability to work under varying weather conditions.
• Familiar with safety precautions around mechanized equipment.

Responsibilities

• Works as part of a crew to maintain water and sewer lines.
• Assists in repairing service lines and fire hydrants.
• Cleans and discards hazardous waste and materials from manholes.

Skills

Knowledge of county and city streets

Knowledge of tools used in maintenance

Skill in operating small hand tools

Ability to understand and carry out verbal instructions

Ability to work overtime with little notice

Education

High School diploma or GED preferred

Tools

Cement mixing tools

Small hand tools

Job description

This position performs manual labor of routine difficulty completing physically demanding unskilled and limited semi-skilled tasks. Works as a member of a water, wastewater, or construction crew maintaining water, sewer, and storm drain lines. An individual in this position is required to be on-call on a rotating basis. This position reports to the Construction (or Maintenance) Foreman.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Works as a member of a water, wastewater, or construction crew locating utilities, laying pipe, installing fire hydrants, making taps, making bores under roads, driveways, etc., installing valves, valve boxes, landscaping, and other related work.
• Mixes cement using bricks to rehab and remodel manholes
• Assists Equipment Operators with spotting utilities and protecting utilities while they are digging.
• Digs out water, sewer, and/or storm water lines with shovel.
• Sets up confined space entry equipment
• Cleans and discards hazardous waste and materials, dirt, and debris from man holes.
• Assists in repairing service lines, mains, sewer manholes, fire hydrants and valves, and storm drain pipes.
• Lifts pumps, earth tamping machines, pipes, fittings, and other materials.
• Assists equipment operators with properly stocking, maintaining, and cleaning vehicles and equipment.
• Performs other related duties as required/assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

High School diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) preferred.

Special Qualifications:

Possession of a valid State of Georgia driver’s license and satisfactory Motor Vehicle Record (MVR).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of county and city streets and locations within the Authority’s delivery system.
• Knowledge of tools used in maintenance and construction.
• Knowledge of precautions necessary to work safely with and around mechanized equipment.
• Knowledge of chemicals, cement, and hazardous waste.
• Skill in operating small hand tools and equipment.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the general public.
• Ability to understand and carry out verbal instructions.
• Ability to work under varying weather conditions.
• Ability to work overtime with little or no notice.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is very heavy work which requires exerting up to 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. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers
• Standing: particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: sufficient to observe violations of codes, to effectively operate standard office equipment; ability to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, drawings, etc.; and to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment, by both day and night.
• Walking: sufficient to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly is exposed to inclement weather, changes of temperature or humidity; exposure to dust, fume, or gases; and exposure to insects and animals. An employee in this position may be subjected to water depths of up to approximately three feet, or work near hazardous traffic areas. The noise level in this work environment is usually loud.

The Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.

Utility Worker I

Department: Systems Maintenance

Pay Grade: 104

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

JOB SUMMARY

This position performs manual labor of routine difficulty completing physically demanding unskilled and limited semi-skilled tasks. Works as a member of a water, wastewater, or construction crew maintaining water, sewer, and storm drain lines. An individual in this position is required to be on-call on a rotating basis. This position reports to the Construction (or Maintenance) Foreman.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Works as a member of a water, wastewater, or construction crew locating utilities, laying pipe, installing fire hydrants, making taps, making bores under roads, driveways, etc., installing valves, valve boxes, landscaping, and other related work.
• Mixes cement using bricks to rehab and remodel manholes
• Assists Equipment Operators with spotting utilities and protecting utilities while they are digging.
• Digs out water, sewer, and/or storm water lines with shovel.
• Sets up confined space entry equipment
• Cleans and discards hazardous waste and materials, dirt, and debris from man holes.
• Assists in repairing service lines, mains, sewer manholes, fire hydrants and valves, and storm drain pipes.
• Lifts pumps, earth tamping machines, pipes, fittings, and other materials.
• Performs landscaping duties.
• Assists equipment operators with properly stocking, maintaining, and cleaning vehicles and equipment.
• Performs other related duties as required/assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

High School diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) preferred.

Special Qualifications:

Possession of a valid State of Georgia driver’s license and satisfactory Motor Vehicle Record (MVR).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of county and city streets and locations within the Authority’s delivery system.
• Knowledge of tools used in maintenance and construction.
• Knowledge of precautions necessary to work safely with and around mechanized equipment.
• Knowledge of chemicals, cement, and hazardous waste.
• Skill in operating small hand tools and equipment.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the general public.
• Ability to understand and carry out verbal instructions.
• Ability to work under varying weather conditions.
• Ability to work overtime with little or no notice.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is very heavy work which requires exerting up to 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. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers
• Standing: particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: sufficient to observe violations of codes, to effectively operate standard office equipment; ability to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, drawings, etc.; and to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment, by both day and night.
• Walking: sufficient to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly is exposed to inclement weather, changes of temperature or humidity; exposure to dust, fume, or gases; and exposure to insects and animals. An employee in this position may be subjected to water depths of up to approximately three feet, or work near hazardous traffic areas. The noise level in this work environment is usually loud.

The Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.

Core hours for this position are Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with every other Friday off. Employees in this position are required to be on-call on a rotating basis.