Job Description
UTILITY WORKER PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WATER/WASTEWATER DIVISION UTILITY WORKER STARTING AT $18.34 PER HOUR / $39,998 ANNUALLY Join our team in this full-time role offering exceptional benefits, including comprehensive health and life insurance, a strong retirement plan, and competitive pay. Under immediate supervision, performs entry-level, heavy manual, and semi-skilled work to assist in the construction, maintenance, and repair of city water distribution and wastewater collection systems. Job Functions: Performs a wide range of a manual duties associated with the installation and maintenance of city utilities including digging, backfilling, breaking pavement, mixing and pouring concrete, cutting pipe, and other plumbing-type repairs. Uses various hand tools to dig, sweep, spread, level, and move materials such as concrete, gravel, sand, dirt, and asphalt. Must be able to drive various light equipment such as pick-up trucks, one-ton single-axle dump trucks, and farm tractors. Load and unload materials, supplies, tools, and equipment. Cleans and maintains tools, equipment, materials, and work area. Set up barricades and flag traffic around the work site. Operates power equipment including tapping machines, pumps, sewer flush truck, power saw, chain saw, air hammer, and soil tampers. Operates backpack chemical sprayer to spray manholes, ditches, and roadside areas with chemicals to control insects and weeds. Flushes fire hydrants, performs simple repairs, and installs adjusts, and repairs water meters. Inspect manholes to detect excessive gas odors and/or stoppage. Assist with setting forms around the area to be repaired, pouring concrete, and finishing surfaces of poured concrete for various maintenance projects. <