Utility Worker I

Alliance Water Resources is a water and wastewater contract operations company with an opening for a Utility Worker I position to work at our Lake Ozark, Osage Beach, MO area. This is manual work involving the maintenance and repair of water/wastewater facilities and equipment as well as maintenance of streets. 

Schedule: 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Monday-Friday with on-call and standby hours. Weekend coverage rotates every other weekend, with a three-day weekend provided the following week.

Essential Functions:

• Assists or performs a variety of cleaning, maintenance, and repair work on water/wastewater equipment, systems, vehicles, and tools as needed.
• Cleans and maintains assigned facilities including office, shop, grounds, and/or streets, parks or other public works facilities and equipment: painting, yard repairs, mowing, trimming, etc.

• Investigates and reports on water distribution and/or wastewater collections concerns and issues.

• Performs locating of water and wastewater facilities.

• Performs service turn-ons and turn-offs as directed.

• Assists in collecting and testing of water or wastewater samples to comply with local, state, and federal regulations; assists in reading meters or replacing meters as directed.

• Monitors inventory of parts and supplies as directed; assists or maintains records and logs as needed; runs errands as needed.

• Communicates with customers concerning the work to be completed.

• Follows safety rules set by company, state and federal regulations including participating in safety meetings, inspecting equipment, assisting and/or advising co-workers of possible safety hazards.

• Operates and drives assigned vehicles as needed to provide effective and safe service to client and customer.

• Reads water meters, records results, and verifies registers to bill customers accurately and in a timely manner by driving and/or walking assigned routes.

• Locates and uncovers meters as necessary.

• Performs related duties as needed or assigned.

• Inspect meters and connections for any defects, irregularities, malfunctions, tampering, and/or unauthorized connections. Report meter defects, hazards, or related findings to proper authority by generating required work orders.

• Resolve and/or refer public inquiries and complaints as necessary.

• Maintains meter inventory and determines disposition of meters.