Utilities Plant Maintenance Mechanic, Senior

Job Title

Advanced Skilled/Mechanical Repair and Maintenance of Machinery/Equipment

The purpose of this classification is to perform advanced skilled/mechanical repair and maintenance of machinery/equipment at water treatment plants, well fields, ground storage facilities, elevated water tank, and related facilities.

Leads a team of mechanics involved in safely repairing/maintaining wellfield and water treatment plant machinery and equipment. Provides direction, guidance, training, and assistance to employees; develops work schedules and makes work assignments; monitors status of work in progress; inspects completed work. Assists supervisor in coordinating and monitoring safe work activities with those of other divisions, departments, contractors, or others as needed;

consults with supervisor to review work activities, status of work, and problems; makes suggestions to management for improvement of productivity; maintains records of work activities. Monitors the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and telemetry systems. Receives, evaluates, troubleshoots, and coordinates response to water plants, ground storage tanks, elevated water tanks, and well field alarms. Generates, evaluates, and responds to reports from the SCADA systems.

Receives and ensures the successful, safe completion of work orders generated by the City's maintenance management system. Operates a computer to enter, retrieve, review or modify Asset management and GIS data; maintains logs/records of test results, assorted meter/gauge readings, chemical applications and other data. Inspects, troubleshoots, and performs mechanical repair/maintenance on water treatment plants machinery/equipment, telemetry, well fields, ground storage facilities, elevated water tank, and related facilities;

installs new systems, upgrades existing systems, and replaces old equipment; performs preventive maintenance and minor welding; schedules repairs and preventive maintenance work to maximize efficiency of equipment; tests machinery, equipment and parts for proper operations; reports problem situations. Diagnoses, installs, disassembles, maintains, and repairs plant equipment, which may include submersible and dry pumps, engines, drives, motors, generators, controls, tanks, chemical feed piping, concentrators, jets, media filters, control valves, hydraulic valves, control panels, air release valves, filter sweeps, lime slakers, silos, shakers, slurry/splitter boxes, polymer system, phosphate system, OSG system, sonar level controllers, gear cases, sludge dryers, conveyor belts, agitators, thickeners, mixers, compressors, oilers, dryers, blowers, membrane systems, softening systems, degasifiers, vacuum systems, vacuum regulators, injectors, and other machinery.

Performs various repair/maintenance tasks to maintain operation efficiency and safety of buildings, machinery, equipment, and tools. These tasks may include inspecting equipment and reporting any defects, oiling/greasing/lubricating machinery, pressure washing/cleaning equipment and facilities, painting buildings and machinery, rebuilding/aligning motors/pumps, rebuilding gear boxes, cutting/fitting pipes, repairing/replacing valves, repairing chemical lines, replacing mechanical parts, checking/ replacing fluids, checking containment areas, checking generators, exercising valves, locking out defective equipment, acidizing wells with sulfamil pellets, disinfecting wells, cleaning raw water lines, performing raw water well and welding/fabricating and assembling metal parts and components, cleaning tanks and resetting timers for automatic lights, calibrating machinery, digging holes/ditches, or lifting/moving heavy materials;

transports, loads and unloads various equipment and materials used in projects. Operates a variety of machinery, equipment, and tools associated with work activities, which may include a crane, forklift, air compressor, pressure washer, generator, pump, confined space hoist, gas detector, welder, cutting torch, drill press, drill, saw, grinder, meters, gauges, self-contained breathing apparatus, ladder, carpentry…