Water Services System Technician - Water Distribution

Salary : $47,091.98 - $70,638.10 Annually

Location : Glendale, AZ

Job Type : Full Time

Job Number : 2025-04074

Department : Water Services

MUNIS- Org Description : Water Distribution

Opening Date : 02 / 20 / 2025

Closing Date : Continuous

Hours per Week : 40

Description

About Us : The City of Glendale's Water Services Department provides over 250,000 residents with safe, reliable, and high-quality water and wastewater services. Glendale Water Services promotes industry best practices, leadership, and innovation to ensure our employees put public health and the vitality of our community first!

The Role : The Water Services System Technician - Water Distribution performs skilled, and semi-skilled construction, maintenance, and repair work on the City of Glendale's water distribution network.

Duties will include installing, testing, maintaining, and repairing water mains, sewer mains, services valves, fire hydrants, manholes and stormwater facilities.

Salary : This position is :

• FLSA non-exempt, and will earn overtime for any hours worked over 40 in a week.
• A Grade 312 with an hourly salary between $22.6404 - $33.9606.

Benefits : The City of Glendale offers a generous benefits package with competitive rates that become effective on the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment. You can review the FY25 Benefits Guide or visit the City of Glendale's Benefits page for more information.

Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Leave :

Regular status positions offer :

5.33 hours per pay period (138 hours / 17.25

Retirement :

The current contribution rate is 12.27%.

The City of Glendale is the West Valley's entertainment nexus; whether it's attending a world-class sporting event at StateFarm Stadium, enjoying a concert at Desert Diamond Arena, or shopping and dining at the Westgate Entertainment District, as a City of Glendale employee, you'll be right in the middle of it all! Glendale is centrally located within the west valley and has convenient access to the 101, 303, US 60, and I-10 freeways. With development happening all around the city, you will notice new homes and businesses being constructed frequently.

At the City of Glendale you'll have the opportunity to interact and engage with a highly diverse, dedicated, and skilled group of professionals. It is one of the best places to work, to grow your career, skills, and advance your future.

This position will be open until filled; applicants will be reviewed as they are received.

Essential Functions

Minimum Qualifications / Special Requirements / Success Factors

Minimum Qualifications :

Two years of experience in construction, wet and dry excavation, equipment maintenance, including the operation of light, medium, and heavy equipment such as hand tools, jackhammer, rammer, 3-ton utility truck, backhoe, dump truck, utility crane truck, and hydro-excavation equipment.

Any equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. One year of relevant experience may be substituted for each year of required education.

Knowledge of :

Ability to :

Special Requirements :

After one year of employment in the Water Services Department and meeting the program criteria, employees will be eligible for the Certification Incentive Program for those employees who obtain additional Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) certifications above what is required for their position.

Success Factor Classification Level :

Foundational : To view the success factor definitions please click here .

Physical Requirements / Working Conditions

Physical Requirements :

Work involves heavy digging, heavy lifting of up to 80 pounds, extensive walking, bending, standing and crawling up and down trench filled holes and confined spaces.

Working Conditions :

Exposure to heavy traffic, hot weather, hazardous materials, insects, and gases.

Benefit information is outlined here :

Do you agree that the answers you provide to the following questions will be accurate, truthful, and are a true representation of your actual job duties / experience as listed in your application job history? Please note, any misstatement of material facts, misrepresentation or job role, or falsification of job duties will be grounds for disqualification from further consideration.

Do you understand that that this position often requires employees to spend most of their work shift outdoors in adverse weather conditions such as extreme heat or cold, performing work duties that involve heavy digging, heavy lifting of up to 80 pounds, extensive walking, bending, standing, and crawling up and down trenches in water filled holes and confined spaces?

Do you understand that employees will be required to be on "paid standby" multiple times throughout the year for one week at a time and must respond to any work calls within a one-hour timeframe?

How many years of experience do you have in construction, maintenance, or water distribution repair work, to include the operation of light, medium, or heavy equipment such as hand tools, jackhammers, rammers, 3-ton utility trucks, backhoes, dump trucks, utility crane trucks, or hydro-excavation equipment.

This position requires employees to obtain a valid Class A, Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with tanker endorsement, within 90 days of hire. Please select a response below that most accurately represents your Class A CDL status :

This position requires employees to obtain an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Grade 1 Operator Certification in Distribution within 12 months of hire. Please select a response below that most accurately represents your ADEQ Operator Certification status :

How many years of experience do you have utilizing small and medium tools and equipment such as shovels, hand tools, gas powered chop saws, chain saws, jackhammers, and rammers / compactors?

How many years of experience do you have operating heavy equipment such as 3-ton utility trucks, backhoes, front end loaders, dump trucks, utility crane trucks, and ditch witch / hydro-excavation equipment?

This position requires employees to perform wet and dry excavations, that include digging in various types of soil conditions, including water saturated excavations, hand digging around pressurized water mains, fire hydrants, water valves, and underground utilities such as high voltage electric, fiber optics, cable television, telephone, and high / low pressure gas lines. Please select how many years of experience you have performing this type of work.

This position will require employees to enter and retrieve information from electronic systems and computers. From the options below, please select your level of computer proficiency :

Required Question

Salary : $47,092 - $70,638