Public Service Worker (Water & Sewer)

The City of Johnson City Tennessee is currently accepting online applications for a Public Service Worker in Water & Sewer Services to assist in the Line Maintenance and Construction Division. The employee performs responsible infrequent skilled and semiskilled or unskilled manual work tasks requiring no special training and minimal experience; does related work as required. This is manual labor in the performance of infrequent skilled and limited semiskilled or unskilled tasks of a physically demanding nature. The work involves performing heavy manual labor which does not require a high degree of manipulative skill or previous experience in order to do an effective job. This position is required to be monitored trained in task requirements and scheduling of these personnel is to be oversight by a supervisor. As work experience is gained employees in this class may be assigned to somewhat more difficult and responsible tasks. Employees in this class work with and around and may operate various pieces of light automotive and mechanical equipment during a minor portion of their time while monitored. The work normally is performed under close supervision; however constant supervision is not always for routine and repetitive tasks which can be carried on without difficulty once they are learned.

Essential Functions of Position:

• sweeps streets sidewalks shops and alleys and picks up refuse and brush on streets;
• loads dirt and construction materials from or onto a truck;
• performs various street maintenance duties such as cleaning gutters spreading rock sand and salt and shoveling snow;
• digs and backfill ditches by hand;
• assists in the installation of water services mains and hydrants and in the repair of water mains;
• paint meters valves and pipe fittings;
• digs and backfill trenches and assists in laying pipe;
• unstops sewers by using rods buckets specialized sewer cleaning and flushing equipment or by hand;
• as a member of the construction and maintenance crew does such jobs as breaking pavement pouring and shoveling asphalt and concrete raking tamping and smoothing asphalt and operating a manual and automatic compactor;
• washes and maintains service trucks and vehicles;
• feeds brush into chipper machine;
• thaws frozen water lines and meters;
• assists on television unit inspecting and sealing sewer lines;
• assists in servicing emergency calls such as removing snow from streets repairing broken water mains and sewer lines and in similar situations;
• performs related tasks as required.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities: Some knowledge of the types and uses of common hand tools and standard equipment used in construction and maintenance work particularly as applied to specialized work to which assigned; general mechanical ability and ability to perform unskilled or semiskilled tasks in construction and maintenance activities; ability to understand and follow specific oral and written instructions; physical strength and agility sufficient to do strenuous manual labor for extended periods under varying weather conditions.

Acceptable Experience and Training: Completion of high school or GED and some experience in performing general manual work; or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge skills and abilities. Possession of a valid motor vehicle operators license issued by the State of Tennessee. Pre-employment physical and background check required.

EEO/AA

This is a Safety Sensitive position subject to pre-employment random and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing as allowed by law.