Seasonal Maintenance Intern

🌊 Summer Maintenance Internship – Highlands Ranch Water

Looking for a summer job that makes a real impact? Join our team and help keep your community’s water clean and flowing! This paid internship is your chance to gain hands-on experience, work outdoors, and learn what keeps our essential water and wastewater systems running.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Loads, unloads, and transports equipment and personnel in District vehicles to a variety of work sites.
• Maintains and operates all assigned tools and equipment.
• Performs work in accordance with safety policies and procedures.
• Keeps floors, walls, windows, furniture, and fixtures of offices, restrooms, and other similar areas in a clean and sanitary condition by hand or with mechanical equipment.
• Performs a variety of semi-skilled routine manual labor and diverse duties such as digging, lifting, painting, landscaping, and vehicle maintenance.
• Enters and exits confined spaces such as underground vaults and manholes.
• Assists other District personnel in maintenance and repair of equipment, machinery, buildings, and grounds.
• Perform other duties and special assignments which may be outside the primary areas of employment.
• Assist other sections as needed to complete the goals of the organization.

DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or GED equivalent is required.
• 18 years of age or older.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Receive directions from others as well as work alone with minimal supervision and exercise independent judgment.
• Skilled in operation of listed tools and equipment.
• Perform strenuous manual labor.
• Effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
• Work with people from diverse backgrounds and points of view as part of a team.
• Follow through tasks to completion and adapt to changing priorities, process conditions, and circumstances.
• Enter and exit confined spaces such as underground vaults and manholes.
• Good mechanical ability.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

This position works under the direct supervision of the Section Lead and/or Maintenance or Operations staff.

TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED

Power and hand tools typically used in water distribution and wastewater collection facilities and building maintenance such as:

Power and hand tools, pressure gauges, ladders, valve keys, paint brushes, pumps, brooms, mops, vacuum cleaners, MSDS datasheets, personal protective equipment, motor vehicles up to 1 ton, telephone, radio, gas detection monitors, fall arresters, and other safety equipment.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk use hands to finger, handle, feel, or operate objects, tools, controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to taste or smell.

The employee must frequently lift and/ or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside-weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes, airborne particles, traffic, toxic, or caustic chemicals.

Work is performed both indoors and outdoors during all seasons of the year and is performed in potentially hazardous environments: i.e. confined spaces, electrical, infectious, and mechanical hazards.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

SELECTION GUIDELINES

Formal application or resume, rating of education and experience, interview, reference check, background check and job-related tests might be required.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific states of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the District’s and requirements of the job change.

📋 How to Apply

We’ll ask for a formal application or resume, and possibly an interview, background check, and a few job-related tests. Just bring your drive to learn and a strong work ethic—we’ll teach you the rest.

We’re accepting applications for at least two weeks—or until the position is filled.

Submit applications at highlandsranch.org/apply or if viewing this posting from our career center, click "Apply" below.

Pre-employment screening includes a background and motor vehicle records check.