What are the responsibilities and job description for the Utility Worker I position at ALLIANCE WATER RESOURCES INC?
Alliance Water Resources, a water and wastewater contract operations company, is seeking two Utility Worker I employees to join our team in the Mound City, MO area. This position performs manual labor related to the operation, maintenance, and repair of water and wastewater facilities, equipment, as well as general street and grounds maintenance.
Schedule: 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Monday-Friday with on-call and standby hours.
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.