Salary: Depends on Qualifications
Location : Albany, OR
Job Type: Regular, Full-time
Job Number: 00849
Department: Public Works
Opening Date: 06/10/2024
Closing Date: 6/23/2024 11:59 PM Pacific
General Description

The City of Albany Public Works Department is currently seeking candidates to join our Water Maintenance Team. In this role, you'll tackle a variety of maintenance and construction tasks, from basic to skilled levels. You will operate various types of equipment to support the construction, operation, repair, maintenance, and replacement of the City's water distribution and canal systems. Additionally, you will be expected to perform any related tasks as needed. Join us and play a crucial part in keeping our City's water systems running smoothly!
The general working hours are 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The hourly rate ranges are: ( Placement at hire based on qualifications).

• Water Maintenance I: $24.40 - $31.07
  
• Water Maintenance II: $26.21 - $33.29
  
• Water Maintenance III: $28.52 - $36.34

Salary Information: Effective July 1, 2024, this position will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (salary increase) of two percent (2.0%).
Benefits include:

• Excellent medical, vision and dental benefit package for the employee and qualified family members with low monthly out-of-pocket Currently, the employee-paid premium is approx. $51/mo. for employee-only coverage up to a max of $147/mo. for family coverage.
• City-paid contribution to a VEBA Trust account for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Currently, the annual contribution is $1,000 for employee-only and $2,000 for employee plus dependent(s).
• Paid time off -

1. 10 paid holidays plus an additional 24 hours of "floating holiday" pay per year
2. 8 hours of sick leave per month
3. 8 hours of vacation leave per month, with progressive increases

• Excellent retirement benefits -
  • City-paid participation in the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (OPSRP and IAP)
  • City-paid contribution into pre-tax deferred compensation plan

In addition, other benefits such as education reimbursement, employee assistance program, basic life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and flexible spending accounts for healthcare and child care expenses.

Essential Functions/Duties & Responsibilities

The duties listed are intended only as illustrative examples of the various types of work that may be performed by individuals in this classification. Any of the following duties may be performed. These examples are not necessarily performed by all incumbents and do not include all specific essential functions and responsibilities the incumbent may be expected to perform.

1. Performs basic and semi-skilled labor and services hydrants, valves, meters, pumps, air release valves, screen trollies, canal valves and gates, and other water system and canal appurtenances within the water distribution and canal systems with higher-level maintenance personal to ensure that all components of the system function properly as work is performed.
2. Performs semi-skilled labor required for construction and maintenance projects, alone or as part of a crew. Work may include hand excavation, cutting brush, mowing, brush clearing, tree removal, tool cleaning, painting, and backfilling.
3. Assists in planning, scheduling, inspecting, maintaining, and repairing the water distribution system.
4. Assists water quality flushing, testing, and sampling.
5. Assist in the completion and maintenance of a variety of records relating to inspections, maintenance activity of the water distribution system and canal.
6. Assist with customer concerns; evaluating the situation; correcting the problem or seeking assistance.
7. Survey the water distribution system to identify both unprotected cross-connections, potential cross-connections, and unaccounted for devices.
8. Maintains regular job attendance and adherence to working hours; may be required to work after hours or weekends and holidays responding to emergencies.
9. Contacts residents and business owners in areas where services will be interrupted and explains why and when service will be interrupted and when service will be restored.
10. Operates large service vehicles safely and legally.
11. Performs routine inspection and preventive maintenance on assigned equipment and tools and refers defects or needed repairs to supervisor.
12. Maintains parts inventory and purchases materials within established guidelines.
13. Determines the locations of other utilities prior to excavation.
14. Performs all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards and best practices.
15. Represents the City of Albany by responding to the public, citizens, its employees, and others in a prompt, professional, and courteous manner while continuously maintaining a positive customer service demeanor. Regards everyone, internal and external, as a customer and deliver the best service possible in a respectful and patient manner.
16. Works to create a high-performance work culture by demonstrating a positive attitude and modeling the City's mission, vision, and values. Conducts self with high integrity, proactive in conserving City resources, and seeks and incorporates customer feedback for ongoing performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality customer service.
17. Serves as a member of various City committees as assigned.
18. Assists other staff in the performance of their duties as assigned; and may provide training and orientation to new assigned personnel.
19. Maintains regular job attendance and adherence to working hours.
20. Adheres to appropriate attire, grooming, and hygiene standards established for the position.
21. Operates a motor vehicle safely and legally.
22. Performs other related duties as required/assigned.

POSITION JOB TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The following duties of this classification are intended only as illustrative examples of the various types of work that may be performed by individuals in this position.
Water Maintenance II
Includes all the aforementioned duties as wells as the following additional duties:

1. Must work a rotating weekly on-call shift for emergency call-back.
2. Provides GIS corrections and updates to maps.
3. Perform skilled activities while working alone or with another operator (ie. flushing, meter changing, valve survey/exercising, service line install/repair/replacement, main line install/repair/replacement, hydrant install/repair/replacement, valve install/repair/replacement, customer service requests, water quality sampling, large meter testing).
4. Schedules, plans, constructs, inspects, maintains, and repairs the water distribution system to ensure proper function.
5. Maintains variety of records relating to inspections, maintenance activity of the water distribution system and canal.
6. May be assigned to assist Water Cross-Connection Specialist in ensuring water system customers comply with Albany Municipal Code governing backflow prevention, maintaining the City's cross-connection control program database, performing onsite inspections to identify cross connections.
7. Operators assigned to canal duties: operation and maintenance of gates, screens, or other flow control structures along the canal. Assists with operation and maintenance of hydroelectric facility.

Water Maintenance III
Includes all the aforementioned duties as well as one of the following groups of additional duties:

1. Eligible to be assigned Acting-in-capacity duties of the Lead Operator.
2. May be assigned to plan upcoming maintenance/tasks (new installations/replacements), meet with contractors to coordinate work.
3. Uses GIS/Arc Map and OMS to navigate, identify, track, and report on maintenance of City assets.
4. May be assigned more technical tasks. For example: asked to provide feedback to upcoming capital installations/replacement or new constructions (plan review), assist with technical tours of facilities (i.e., engineering tours, regulator tours, etc.), or assist consultants with surveys, inspections, or other assessments.
5. May be assigned to assist Water Cross Connection Specialist with interacting with property owners and the public, preparing documents and written reports, and other tasks associated with ensuring the cross-connection program follows federal, state, and local statutes, rules, and ordinances.
6. Operators assigned to canal duties: operation and maintenance of hydroelectric facility.

Supervision/Lead Work Exercised

This is a non-supervisory position. Lead work and coordination of work of others is not a typical function assigned to this position. Incumbents in this position may provide training and orientation to newly assigned personnel.
Qualifications & Requirements

Education and Experience:
Water Maintenance I
A high school diploma or its equivalent and 0-2 years of experience relating to construction, maintenance, or repair of water distribution systems or canal systems; or an equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Water Maintenance II
A high school diploma and a minimum of three years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Water Maintenance III
A high school diploma and a minimum of five years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Special Requirements:
Water Maintenance I

• Possession of or ability to obtain a valid Oregon Class A commercial driver's license (CDL) with air brake and tanker endorsement and a driving record that meets City standards within one year of job placement.
• Possession of or ability to obtain a valid Oregon Water Distribution Level I certification within two years of job placement.

Water Maintenance II

• Possession of a valid Oregon Class A commercial driver's license (CDL) with air brake and tanker endorsement and a driving record that meets City standards at time of job placement.
• Possession of an Oregon Water Distribution Level II certification at the time of job placement.

Water Maintenance III

• Possession of or ability to obtain a valid Oregon driver's license and a driving record that meets City standards at the time of job placement.
• Possession of a valid Oregon Water Distribution Level III at the time of job placement unless the individual is assigned to Canal and Hydropower operations.

For all levels within this series:

• The individual shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of themselves or others.
• In accordance with Human Resources substance abuse policies, incumbents in this position are subject to the City's Drug & Alcohol testing program.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of: equipment, facilities, materials, methods, and procedures used in municipal water distribution operation, maintenance, construction, and repair activities.
Skill in: operation of listed tools and equipment used.
Ability to: perform heavy manual tasks for extended periods of time; work safely; to operate and repair small/light equipment, such as power tools; communicate effectively, verbally and in writing; understand and carry out written and oral instructions; establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, other departments, and the public; operate computers for data entry.

Work Environment
The work environment is regularly outdoors in outside weather conditions. The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and vibration. The employee frequently works in utility excavations and occasionally enters confined spaces. The noise level in the work environment is occasionally loud. May be required to be on-call and to work weekends, holidays, and evenings.
Physical Demands
The factors described herein are representative of, but not all-inclusive of, those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Detailed information may be available in a supplemental Job Task Analysis document.
The work is very heavy work which requires lifting up to 90 pounds occasionally, and carrying up to 90 pounds occasionally, pushing and pulling up to 185 pounds occasionally. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: sufficient to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: sufficient to ascend or descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling: sufficient to move about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching: sufficient to bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: sufficient to perceive attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: sufficient to pick, pinch, type, or otherwise work, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: sufficient to apply pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: sufficient to pick, hold, or otherwise work, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling: sufficient to bend legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: sufficient to raise objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive methods.
• Pulling: sufficient to use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: sufficient to use upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching: sufficient to extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping: sufficient to bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Talking: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: sufficient to observe violations of codes, to effectively operate standard office equipment; ability to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, drawings, etc.; and to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment, by both day and night.
• Walking: sufficient to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.

Tools & Equipment Used
In the performance of job duties, the employee will use motorized vehicles and equipment, including dump trucks, pickup trucks, utility trucks, backhoes, forklifts, and vacuum excavation equipment; saws; pumps; compressors; generators; common hand and power tools; shovels; wrenches; detection devices; phone; copiers; computers; and other related tools and equipment.
Safety Equipment
This is not an exhaustive list. Hearing protection (including earmuffs), safety glasses, steel toed boots, gloves (nitrile, latex, leather), hardhat, knee pads, respirators and dust masks, traffic cones, safety vest, fall-restraint equipment when required. Develops safe work habits and contributes to the safety of self, co-workers, and the public.
The City of Albany offers a generous benefits package to employees and eligible dependents.
This position is represented by American Federation of State, County, and Municipal employees (AFSCME). For a complete and detailed overview of the AFSCME benefits package,
Salary and benefits are subject to negotiation and, therefore, may change as a result of negotiations.
01

What is your education background? (select the highest level achieved)

• Did Not Complete High School
• High School Diploma or GED
• Technical College
• College Credit Hours Completed Towards a Degree
• AA Degree
• BA or BS Degree
• MA or MS Degree
• PhD

02

Please list your degree field. (If no degree, type N/A)
03

How many years of experience do you have relating to construction, maintenance, or repair of water distribution systems or canal systems?

• 0 - 2 years
• 3 - 4 years
• 5 years

04

Do you possess any of the following Oregon certifications? Select all that apply:

• Water Distribution Operator I
• Water Distribution Operator II
• Water Distribution Operator III
• Water Distribution Operator IV
• None

05

If you do not possess any Oregon Water Distribution certifications, do you have the ability to obtain the Level I Certification within two years of hire?

• Yes
• No
• Not applicable (already possess certification)

06

This position requires a Class A Oregon Commerical Driver's License (CDL) with air brake and tanker endorsements. Do you possess a current Oregon Class A CDL?

• Yes; with endorsements
• Yes; without endorsements
• No; ability to obtain within one year of job placement

07

Have you received any of the following traffic convictions? Select all that apply.

• One class "A" infraction conviction during the past thirty-six (36) months?
• More than one class "A" infraction conviction between the past (36) and (60) months?
• More than one class "B" infraction conviction during the past twelve (12) months?
• More than two class "B" infraction convictions during the past thirty-six (36) months?
• More than two class "C" infraction convictions during the past twelve (12) months?
• More than three class "C" infraction convictions during the past thirty-six (36) months?
• Any misdemeanor driving convictions within the past twenty-four (24) months?
• Any felony driving convictions within the past sixty (60) months?
• None

08

Are you available to work the designated hours with the understanding that additional hours may be required at times?

• Yes
• No

09

Water Maintenance II and III are required to be on a rotating, week-long, 24-hour on-call shift for emergency call-backs. Are you able to work outside of the regular work schedule when needed?

• Not applicable (only interested in Water Maintenance I)
• Yes
• No

10

This position primarily works in and around the City's Wastewater and Water Treatment plants and related facilities. You will work around and be exposed to: sewage, biosolids, water, and other matters related to wastewater and water treatment. Can you work in these types of work environment(s).

• Yes
• No

11

The job duties, physical demands, work environment & conditions, and job requirements of this position are outlined in the job description. Are you able to meet the demands, conditions, and requirements of this position with or without reasonable accommodation?

• Yes
• No

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