Job Details
Salary: $26.21 - $39.31 Hourly
Location : Glendale, AZ
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 2023-03051
Department: Water Services
MUNIS- Org Description: Water Distribution
Opening Date: 05/15/2024
Closing Date: Continuous
Hours per Week: 40
Description
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, Sr. - Water Distribution performs skilled, and semi-skilled construction, maintenance, and repair work on the City's Water Distribution network.
Individuals in this role may lead, supervise, or direct the work of others.
Salary and Hiring Bonus:
- This position is FLSA Non-exempt.
- Effective July 1, 2024 this position this position will be a Grade 315 with an hourly salary between $26.2091 - $39.3139.*
In addition to a generous salary, this position offers a $2,000** Hiring Bonus!* Pending City Council approval.
**Hiring Bonus to be paid as follows: $1,000 after 30 days of employment, and $1,000 after 6 months of employment. You must be an active employee at the time the hiring bonus is scheduled to be paid to receive the bonus. Current regular status City of Glendale employees are not eligible for hiring bonuses.
Benefits: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. You can review the FY24 Benefits Guide or visit the City of Glendale's Benefits page for more information.
Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Leave:Regular status position's offer:
- The City of Glendale observes 10.5 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 per year), and increases to 6.12 hours after 5 years, and to 7.6 hours after 10 years of service.
- Sick leave accrues at 4.4 hours per pay period (114 hours per year).
Retirement:- This position participates in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS).
- Contribution is mandatory, and the current contribution rate is 12.29%.
To learn more about this role, please watch the video below:
This position will be open until filled; applicants will be reviewed as they are received. Essential Functions - May provide lead expertise or lead supervision over a small work crew.
- Installs, tests, maintains and repairs water mains, sewer mains, services, valves, fire hydrants and meters.
- Taps water and sewer mains and installs water services and meters when new service is requested; checks flow rates and tests pressure.
- Constructs and maintains large meter vaults and manholes; raises, rebuilds, pumps and vacuums manholes.
- Excavates job sites and restores job sites to pre-work condition.
- Sets up, operates and maintains closed circuit television monitoring of sewer lines
- Hydro-cleans sewer lines to remove obstacles; uses chemicals for roach and pest control.
- Maintains wells; dismantles well sites.
- Maintains daily records including confined space entry and gas monitoring.
- Assists, collects and delivers Bacti samples.
- Assists and monitors the various contracts administered by the Wastewater Collection division. Some of the work is routinely performed during the nighttime hours.
- Operates various light, medium and heavy equipment.
- Notifies residents and business of work being performed; responds to questions from citizens.
- May perform data entry work.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications/Special Requirements/Success FactorsMinimum Qualifications: Three years of experience in construction, maintenance, or water distribution repair work, to include the operation of light, medium, or heavy equipment such as hand tools, jackhammers, rammers, 3-ton utility trucks, backhoes, dump trucks, utility crane trucks, or hydro-excavation equipment.
Knowledge of:Rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to area of assignment
Materials, tools, equipment, safety hazards and precautions common to the assigned area of responsibility
Confined space entry procedures Blue stake laws and underground utility identification practices
Computers and applicable data management and maintenance programs for area of responsibility, if required
Effective customer service skills
Ability to:Make assignments, instruct, and lead the work of subordinate employees
Read and understand blueprints, maps, and blue staking procedures
Deal courteously with the public and answer citizen questions
Safety barricade work sites; understand and follow safe working practices
Determine what equipment, tools, manpower and materials will be needed to complete assigned projects
Operate light, medium, and heavy equipment; perform maintenance and minor repairs on it
Complete reports and logs and enter and retrieve computer data
Keep accurate documentation of confined space entry and gas monitor readings
Operate and understand atmospheric sensing devices
Establish and maintain effective working relationships
Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
Any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying.
Special Requirements:- Arizona Class A Commercial Driver's License with tanker endorsement is required at the time of application.
- This position requires employees to have an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Grade 1 Water Distribution System Operator Certification at time of hire, and must obtain a Grade 2 Water Distribution System Operator Certification within twelve (12) months of hire.
- Will be subject to call back and stand-by duty and may be subject to rotating shifts.
- Applicants will be required to undergo drug testing prior to employment and will be subject to further drug and alcohol testing throughout their period of employment in accordance with the City of Glendale Substance Abuse policy.
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: Professional/Supervisory: (To view the success factor definitions please
click here.)
Physical Requirements/Working Conditions Physical Requirements: Work involves heavy digging, heavy lifting of up to 80 pounds, extensive walking, bending, standing and crawling up and down trenches and in water/wastewater filled holes and confined spaces.
Working Conditions:Exposure to heavy traffic, hot weather, insects, hazardous materials, pesticides and herbicides, and gases
Benefit information is outlined here:
01
Do you agree that the information listed in your application and the answers you provide to the following questions are an accurate and a true representation of your actual job history, and that you understand that all information will be verified through the recruitment process and any misstatement of material facts will be grounds for disqualification from further consideration?
02
This position requires employees to have a valid Class A, Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with tanker endorsement, at the time of application. Please select a response below that most accurately represents your Class A CDL status:
- I do not have a valid Class A, Commercial Driver's License with tanker endorsement.
- I have a valid Class A, Commercial Driver's License with tanker endorsement.
03
Do you currently possess a valid Grade 1 or higher ADEQ Water Distribution System Operator Certification?
04
How many years of experience do you have in construction, maintenance, or water distribution repair work, to include the operation of light, medium, or heavy equipment such as hand tools, jackhammers, rammers, 3-ton utility trucks, backhoes, dump trucks, utility crane trucks, or hydro-excavation equipment.
- Less than 1 year of experience
- Between 1 and 2 years of experience
- Between 2 and 3 years of experience
- 3 or more years of experience
- None of the above
05
How many years of experience do you have utilizing hydraulic valve operating machines/mounted valve exercisers, such as the Wachs ERV-750?
- Less than 1 year of experience
- Between 1 and 2 years of experience
- Between 2 and 3 years of experience
- 3 or more years of experience
- None of the above
06
This position requires employees to perform wet and dry excavations, that include digging in various types of soil conditions, including water saturated excavations, hand digging around pressurized water mains, fire hydrants, water valves, and underground utilities such as high voltage electric, fiber optics, cable television, telephone, and high/low pressure gas lines. Please select how many years of experience you have performing this type of work.
- Less than 1 year of experience
- Between 1 and 2 years of experience
- Between 2 and 3 years of experience
- 3 or more years of experience
- None of the above
07
This position will require employees to enter and retrieve information from electronic systems and computers. From the options below, please select your level of computer proficiency:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
- None of the above
Required Question