Water Infrastructure Technician

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Lays water and sewer pipe; repairs and replaces sewer and water lines and related facilities;
2. Maintains water and wastewater lines; maintains manholes and vaults checks outfall lines for leaks and cleans.
3. Locates water and sewer lines from 811 requests. May alternate and serve as crew leader on site.
4. Monitors and adds proper amounts of chlorine at chlorine stations; checks pumps for proper working conditions; checks, maintains and repairs pumps; cleans stations.
5. Performs preventive maintenance on sewage lift stations and treatment plant(s) including pumps, filters, electric motors, aeration basins, re-circulation and sludge pumps and other treatment plant equipment;
6. Makes water and sewer taps; digs up lines with trencher or backhoe, cleans and bores holes in running lines for meter and box; repairs breaks/leaks in main lines, taps and meter boxes.
7. Flushes fire hydrants and dead-end lines and checks chlorine residual.
8. Reads water meters for billing using handheld computers for assigned route; takes rereads as assigned in response to customer complaints; turns water on and off based on work orders.
9. May perform electrical, carpentry, welding or other journey level trades' work on occasion as needed by the department.