Meter Mechanic II

The City of Fort Myers strives to be an employer of choice and most of our employees turn jobs into long term careers.  The salary shown in the job description is the full range for this position from entry to later career.  

NEW EMPLOYEES ARE HIRED AT, OR NEAR THE ENTRY POINT SHOWN, DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE.

Under the general direction of the designated supervisor, performs a wide variety of skilled, journey-level duties in the testing, field rebuilding and repair, replacement and servicing of residential, industrial, and commercial water meters ranging in size from 5/8” to 3 inch and above. This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Responsibilities and Reporting During an Emergency Situation:

Essential Employees may be required to work during a declared emergency. Depending on the nature of the emergency, this may require working around the clock for several days on short notice.

Non Essential Employees will not be required to work during a declared emergency. The employee’s Department Head will determine when the employee will be required to work.

• Receive and respond to emergency and routine work order requests.
• Test and repair water meters. 
• Install water meters. 
• Perform meter maintenance. 
• Drive and maintain motor vehicles; maintain equipment and supplies necessary to complete assigned tasks.
• This position requires regular and reliable attendance and the employee’s physical presence at the workplace.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

When assigned to Meter Services / Customer Service:

• May participate in on-call duty.
• Perform after hour service as assigned.

• Repair leaks within the meter box, customer side or city side.
• Responsible for maintenance of meter boxes and lids, trim bushes, meter box replacement, and cleaning out of meter box.
• Ability to operate and use a smart phone and other forms of technology.
• Ability to work with an AMI (Automatic Meter Infrastructure) system.
• Ability to look up and correctly obtain key/relevant information in the billing system needed for completing assigned work/tasks/duties.
• Ability and willingness to complete an acceptable amount of work orders during a workday based on repair priority criteria.
• Performs curb stop change out 5/8” to 2”.
• Install hydrant meters as needed.
• Perform meter change out as scheduled.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES 

• Skill in organization, attention to detail, prioritization, and time management.
• Ability to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to operate necessary equipment, including hand tools etc.
• Ability to understand the organization and operation of the City and of outside agencies as necessary to assume assigned responsibilities.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and interpretation based on acquired knowledge in circumstances where limited standardization exists. 

• High School diploma or GED. 
• Two years’ experience in utilities billing or related work.

CERTIFICATION, LICENSE AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS 

• Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) Mandatory Drug/Alcohol Testing required.
• Must possess Florida Driver’s License with an acceptable driving record.

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Fingering – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

Work performed is primarily: 

•   Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force  occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Contact with internal and external customers.
• Ability to perform strenuous work in varying and adverse weather conditions.
• May be exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; risk of electrical shock; risk of vibration.
• May be required to work hours other than the regular schedule including evenings, weekends, holidays and during emergencies.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein.   Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description. 

Salary : $20 - $31