Salary: $44,850.00 - $67,275.00 Annually
Location : Glendale, AZ
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 2023-03098
Department: Water Services
MUNIS- Org Description: Water Distribution
Opening Date: 01/01/2024
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 - 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.
Salary and Hiring Bonus: This position is a Grade 311 with an hourly rate between $21.56 - $32.34.
In addition to a generous salary, this position offers a $3,000 Hiring Bonus!
Hiring Bonus to be paid as follows: $1,000 after 30 days of employment, $1,000 after 6 months of employment, and $1,000 after completion of 1 year probation. 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 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

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/Special Requirements/Success Factors

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.
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.
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 within 90 days of hire.
  
• 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.
  
• 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:
Foundational: (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 trench filled holes and confined spaces.
Working Conditions:
Exposure to heavy traffic, hot weather, hazardous materials, insects, 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?

• No
• Yes

02

Do you understand that that this position often requires employees to spend most of their work shift outdoors in adverse weather conditions such as extreme heat or cold, performing work duties that involve heavy digging, heavy lifting of up to 80 pounds, extensive walking, bending, standing, and crawling up and down trenches in water filled holes and confined spaces?

• No
• Yes

03

Do you understand that employees will be required to be on "paid standby" multiple times throughout the year for one week at a time and must respond to any work calls within a one-hour timeframe?

• No
• Yes

04

How many years of experience do you have 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?

• Less than 1 year.
• Between 1 and 2 years.
• Between 2 and 3 years.
• Between 3 and 4 years.
• Between 4 and 5 years.
• 5 or more years.
• None of the above.

05

This position requires employees to obtain a valid Class A, Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with tanker endorsement, within 90 days of hire. 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, but do not have a tanker endorsement.
• I have a valid Class A, Commercial Driver's License with tanker endorsement.

06

This position requires employees to obtain an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Grade 1 Operator Certification in Distribution within 12 months of hire. Please select a response below that most accurately represents your ADEQ Operator Certification status:

• I do not have an ADEQ Grade 1 Operator Certification in Distribution
• I have a ADEQ Grade 1 Operator Certification in Distribution
• I have a ADEQ Grade 2 Operator Certification in Distribution
• I have a ADEQ Grade 3 Operator Certification in Distribution
• I have a ADEQ Grade 4 Operator Certification in Distribution

07

How many years of experience do you have utilizing small and medium tools and equipment such as shovels, hand tools, gas powered chop saws, chain saws, jackhammers, and rammers/compactors?

• 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

08

How many years of experience do you have operating heavy equipment such as 3-ton utility trucks, backhoes, front end loaders, dump trucks, utility crane trucks, and ditch witch/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

09

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

10

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