Job Summary: Under general direction completes daily work orders related to meter services including installation termination lock outs repairs and resolving problems in the field.
Essential Job Functions:
- Ability to turn on water services for new customers turn off for closed or delinquent accounts and record meter readings for final billings in assigned territory.
- Ability to respond to emergency calls; investigate customer complaints related to pressure flow leaks or high consumption.
- Ability to replace defective control meters and control valves leaking gaskets damaged boxes and lids to the metering site.
- Ability to assist on large meter crew performing maintenance on meters size 3 to 10.
Other Job Functions:
- Ability to perform scheduled change outs of aged or malfunctioning meters 3/4 to 1 in size.
- Ability to assist meter reading in facilitating safe access to metering sites by repairing reported defects and clearing impediments at the metering site.
Minimum Qualifications:
Knowledge Skills and Abilities Required:
- Knowledge of water utilities and operations policies procedures and ordinances.
- Knowledge of specifications for all size meters and metering sites metering functions and related terminology.
- Skills in the maintenance of water meter and service connections.
- Skills in quickly ascertaining problems with malfunctioning meters and determining quick resolutions.
- Ability to use a variety of tools and equipment used in the trade.
- Ability to understand and visualize combined metering scenarios.
- Ability to respond to an on a scheduled oncall basis and to work extended periods of time under imposed emergency assignments.
- Ability to lift or exert forces equivalent to lifting up to 100 lbs.
- Ability to perform arithmetic calculations accurately.
- Ability to work in confined spaces under extreme weather conditions.
- Ability to operate a variety of equipment including but not limited to PC calculator 2way radio jack hammer and portapower winch.
- Ability to perform a variety of physical skills including but not limited to carrying data entry dragging driving holding kneeling lifting pulling pushing seeing sorting sitting standing squatting stooping twisting body walking and writing.
- Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and make fine discriminations in sound.
Qualifying Education and Experience:
Completion of high school.
Must successfully pass a background check