Water Meter Worker

Description

Salary: $40,950 - $61,438

Position Grade: 205G

Department: Water Division

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1822

Location: St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position are responsible for reading, recording and assessing water meter information.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Locate and expose stop boxes at customer property. This includes the use of metal detectors and digging to uncover this access pipe.

• Turn water service on and off using equipment provided by the Water Division. This may necessitate cleaning out the stop box with clean-out tongs or other tools prior to inserting the turn-off key.

• Read water meters visually through touch and read wand or through a computer system using radio read technology.

• Physically handle all equipment, including lifting and moving up to 100-pound cast iron lids over meter vaults to obtain readings. Pumping out water filled with heavy pumps is also required.

• Communicate with customers in a professional and courteous manner in stressful and sometimes hostile situations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to process, calculate, compute, summate, and/or tabulate data and/or information. Includes the ability to perform subsequent action in relation to these computational operations.

• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from others.

• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a motor vehicle, sump pump, metal detector and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as work orders, street guides, correspondence and general operating manuals.

• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Involves semi-routine standardized work, with some latitude for independent judgment regarding choices of action.

• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties that may be subject to frequent change.

• Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, irate individuals or disease.

• Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift, carry, push, and pull moderately heavy objects and materials, up to fifty (50) pounds, such as a meter box lid or pump. Tasks involve the regular and, at times, sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling in order to perform duties.

• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of colors, sounds, and odors associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as hearing running water and smelling foul air.

Qualifications

Some experience reading meters for a public utility; OR some experience working in the trades, construction or landscaping fields where knowledge of reading meters for a public utility can be acquired; OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

License: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position.

Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:

Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request

When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Veterans Preference Points

To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.

City Residence Preference Points

City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.

Accommodations

If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.

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