DRIVER - WATER​/WASTEWATER

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WATER/WASTEWATER DIVISION

DRIVER 1

$49,415.00 ANNUALLY / $23.76 HOURLY

Join our team in this full‑time role offering exceptional benefits, including comprehensive health and life insurance, a strong retirement plan, and competitive pay.

• Performs a wide range of manual duties associated with installation, repair, and maintenance of city water distribution and sewer collecting system including digging, breaking pavement, mixing and pouring concrete, cutting pipes, and other plumbing-type repairs.
• Operates power equipment including tapping machines, pumps, sewer flush truck, power saw, air hammer, and soil tampers.
• Positions trucks for loading and drives tandem axle commercial vehicles to haul spoil to landfill or other materials such as sand, gravel, dirt, asphalt, or concrete treated base to the work site.
• Must be able to drive various light equipment such as pick‑up trucks, one and two‑ton single axle dump trucks, skid steer loaders and farm tractors.
• Set up barricades and flag traffic around the work site.
• Uses various hand tools to dig, sweep, spread, level, and move materials such as concrete, gravel, sand, dirt, and asphalt.
• Assists with setting forms around the area to be repaired, pouring concrete, and finishing surfaces of poured concrete for various maintenance projects.
• Construct and repair sewer manholes, using masonry tools, chemical grout, and quickset concrete.
• Assists with setting forms around the area to be repaired, pouring concrete, and finishing surfaces of poured concrete for various maintenance projects.

• Working knowledge of operating procedures for various light equipment.
• Ability to read and understand operation manuals and chemical application instructions.
• Knowledge of standard safety practices.
• Skill in using basic sewer and water repair tools and equipment.
• Ability to follow oral/written instructions.
• Ability to communicate with co‑workers.
• Ability to drive standard shift vehicles.
• Physical ability to perform essential job duties.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• One year of experience in sewer and water construction, maintenance, or repair activities.

• Must pass a background screen, driver’s license verification and physical exam, including a drug test.
• Must be able to drive and have a valid Class “B” Commercial Driver’s License with air brakes and tanker endorsement and maintain it as a condition of continued employment or qualify to obtain within one year.
• Must register with the FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION CLEARINGHOUSE.

All applicants with a CDL must also register with the FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION CLEARINGHOUSE. This can be done by going to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./register and clicking “Go to login.” This is a federal requirement for all CDL holders and this registration must be completed before the hiring process. We will run a full query with the FMCSA Clearinghouse. Query results must be ‘Not Prohibited’.

Should you have any questions or issues registering, please contact Kim Beasley in the HR office at 901‑385‑6430 or by email atkbeasley.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. We participate in E‑Verify.

We appreciate your interest in joining our team. Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to every inquiry. Only candidates selected for testing or interviews will be contacted. 

Please note:

A new application is required for each career opportunity you apply for. In accordance with Tennessee’s Open Records Law, all submitted applications and resumes are subject to public disclosure.

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