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Water Services System Technician - Water Distribution bei City of Glendale (AZ), AZ

City of Glendale (AZ), AZ · Glendale, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Onsite

$47,091.00  -  $70,638.00

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About the Department


About Us:
The City of Glendale's Water Services Department provides over 250,000 residents with safe, reliable, and high-quality water and wastewater services. Glendale Water Services promotes industry best practices, leadership, and innovation to ensure our employees put public health and the vitality of our community first! 


The Role:
The Water Services System Technician - Water Distribution performs skilled, and semi-skilled construction, maintenance, and repair work on the City of Glendale's water distribution network.

Duties will include installing, testing, maintaining, and repairing water mains, sewer mains, services valves, fire hydrants, manholes and stormwater facilities.


This position will be open until filled; applicants will be reviewed as they are received.


Salary:
This position is:

  • FLSA non-exempt, and will earn overtime for any hours worked over 40 in a week.
  • A Grade 312 with an hourly salary between $22.6404 - $33.9606.

Benefits:
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The City of Glendale offers a generous benefits package with competitive rates that become effective the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment. 


Below are some City of Glendale benefits resources for your review: 


Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Leave:
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City of Glendale Regular status positions offer:

  • 10.5 paid holidays per year, and full-time employees are also granted an additional 12 hours of holiday special leave per calendar year to celebrate their cultural or religious holidays
  • Vacation leave accrues at:
    • 5.33 hours per pay period (138 hours/17.25* days per year)
    • Increases to 6.12 hours per pay period after 5 years
    • Then caps out at 7.6 hours per pay period after 10 years of service
  • Sick leave accrues at 4.4 hours per pay period (114 hours/14.25 days* per year)

* Days per year estimates are based on an 8-hour work day



Retirement:
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  • Contribution is mandatory, and deducted every pay period
  • The current contribution rate is 12.00%
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The City of Glendale is the West Valley’s entertainment nexus; whether it’s attending a world-class sporting event at StateFarm Stadium, enjoying a concert at Desert Diamond Arena, or shopping and dining at the Westgate Entertainment District, as a City of Glendale employee, you'll be right in the middle of it all! Glendale is centrally located within the west valley and has convenient access to the 101, 303, US 60, and I-10 freeways. With development happening all around the city, you will notice new homes and businesses being constructed frequently.

At the City of Glendale you'll have the opportunity to interact and engage with a highly diverse, dedicated, and skilled group of professionals. It is one of the best places to work, to grow your career, skills, and advance your future.





Position Duties

  1. Performs skilled and semi-skilled construction, maintenance, and repair work.
  2. Operate various light, medium, and heavy equipment including 3-ton utility truck, backhoe, dump truck, utility crane truck, and hydro-excavation equipment.
  3. Uses power and hand tools, light, and heavy equipment to accomplish tasks.
  4. Explains and enforces rules and regulations pertaining to safety, barricading, direction of traffic, hazardous materials, and operation of equipment.
  5. Maintains daily work records; perform computerized data entry work.
  6. Transport and sets up supplies and equipment; makes required safety checks.
  7. Installs, tests, maintains, and repairs water mains, sewer mains, services valves, fire hydrants, manholes and stormwater facilities.
  8. Taps water mains and installs services, and water meters.
  9. Tests, repairs, maintains, replaces, and relocates existing large and small water meters.
  10. Performs water turn off/turn on for scheduled maintenance and emergencies.
  11. Responds to and resolves no water complaints.
  12. Installs, pulls, relocates, testing, repairs, assembles, and reads water meters.
  13. Constructs and maintains large meter vaults and manholes.
  14. Excavates job sites, restores job sites to pre-work conditions.
  15. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: 
Two years of experience in construction, wet and dry excavation, equipment maintenance, including the operation of light, medium, and heavy equipment such as hand tools, jackhammer, rammer, 3-ton utility truck, backhoe, dump truck, utility crane truck, and hydro-excavation equipment.

Any equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. One year of relevant experience may be substituted for each year of required education.  

Knowledge of:

  • Rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to area of assignment
  • Materials, tools, equipment, safety hazards and precautions common to the assigned areas of responsibility
  • Confined space entry procedures
  • Blue stake laws and underground utility identification practices

Ability to:
  • Read and understand blueprints, technical diagrams, maps, and blue staking procedures
  • Barricade work sites according to the Phoenix barricade manual
  • Understand and follow safe working practices
  • Understand and carry out oral and written instructions
  • Notify residents and businesses of work being performed; answers questions from citizens
  • Provide general direction to other employees and volunteers
  • Deal courteously with the public, and co-workers
  • Fill out reports and logs, and enter and retrieve information on computers
  • Operate and understand atmospheric sensing devices
  • Operate city vehicles which require a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL)

Special Requirements:

  • Arizona Class A Commercial Driver's License with tanker endorsement is required within 90 days of hire.
    • Any employee operating a motor vehicle on City business must possess and retain a current, valid State of Arizona class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on City business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all required driver training. An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on City business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance.

    • Registration with the FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse) is a requirement for all CDL holders. Selected candidates will be required to register and authorize the City of Glendale to conduct limited queries on their CDL for the duration of their employment in order to be considered for this role. Register by visiting https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/Register

  • ADEQ Grade 1 Operator Certification in Distribution is required within twelve (12) months of hire.
  • Will be subject to call back and stand-by duty and may be subject to rotating shifts.
  • This position is classified as safety-sensitive which requires candidates to successfully undergo drug and alcohol testing prior to employment. They will be subject to further drug and alcohol testing throughout their period of employment in accordance with the City of Glendale Substance Abuse policy. A post-offer physical assessment is required. The City of Glendale will incur the cost of all required testing.

After one year of employment in the Water Services Department and meeting the program criteria, employees will be eligible for the Certification Incentive Program for those employees who obtain additional Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) certifications above what is required for their position.

Success Factor Classification Level:

Foundational: To view the success factor definitions please click here. (Download PDF reader).

Other Qualifications

Physical Requirements:
Work involves heavy digging, heavy lifting of up to 80 pounds, extensive walking, bending, standing and crawling up and down trench filled holes and confined spaces.

Working Conditions:
Exposure to heavy traffic, hot weather, hazardous materials, insects, and gases.

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