Utility Maintenance Technician I - Water Billing

Duties: Performs customer service duties in the field as necessary including new water service connects and to close out accounts. Deliver delinquency notices. Turn off services for delinquent accounts. Place locks on services and/or remove meter. Restores services to delinquent accounts after payment is made by removing locks or reinstalling meters. Complete service order requests and submit to ensure accurate billing; respond and repair, if needed, leaks at the meter. Examines meters for signs of tampering and reports inoperative, leaking, malfunctioning, or damaged meters and registers. Reports any water theft as discovered to supervisors. Locate service addresses and checks meters of various sizes for stuck dials and inoperable parts, and verifies meter information. Answer customers' questions of a general nature on meter readings or direct them to the Water Billing Office. Performs water meter exchanges, installations and repairs for water meters (5/8" to 2"). Cleans out, raises or lowers and replace meter boxes and/or lids. Installs, repairs and replaces meter reading components of water meters used in the automatic meter reading system (meter interface unit (MIU) or register). Perform other duties as assigned to ensure efficient and effective operations. Must have and maintain, without interruption, all necessary licenses, certifications, clearances, and/or job requirements. Work the assigned schedule and comply with City timekeeping and attendance policy.

Qualifications: High school diploma or general education degree (GED). Valid Texas driver's license and good driving record. May require moderate to heavy lifting and carrying; kneeling, crouching and bending; pushing, pulling and reaching; and standing for prolonged periods of time. May require working in inclement weather (heat, cold, rain, etc.)

The City of Pasadena offers very generous benefits to all full-time employees. For example:

• Employee-only medical insurance starts as low as $15 per month and the most expensive Employee & Family plan is less than $350 per month.
• The City has its own medical clinic staffed with a M.D. and two medical assistants. Employees and their covered dependents over the age of 5 can visit the clinic FREE OF CHARGE.
• Employees and their covered dependents also have access to Virtual Visits with a medical professional FREE OF CHARGE.
• The City offers college tuition reimbursement of up to $3,500 per year.
• As an employee, you will contribute a portion of your salary each pay-period towards your retirement and the City will match your contribution by 200%. Example, if you contribute $100, the City will contribute $200.
• Civilian employees accumulate vacation at the following rates:
  • Less than 6 years of service - two weeks of vacation per year.
  • From 6 to less than 11 years of service - three weeks of vacation per year.
  • From 11 to less than 21 years of service – four weeks of vacation per year.
  • From 21 to less than 26 years of service – five weeks of vacation per year.
  • From 26 years of service and up – six weeks of vacation per year.