Water Meter Repair Technician

Date Opened:
Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00 AMClose Date:
Thursday, March 05, 2026 12:00 AM Department:
Charlotte Water Department Salary: $24.00 - $29.20 Commensurate with Experience
** Welcome to the City of Charlotte
** Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:
* Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce
* Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development
* Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services
* Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems
* Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions
** SUMMARY
* * Charlotte’s local government, with more than 9,000 employees and a total budget of $3.65 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play.
Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330,000 customer accounts and over 1100 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 26 budget is $651 million and a five-year capital program of $2.2.28 billion.

We enjoy the highest credit ratings from Moody’s and S&P Global as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent, skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.
** SALARY:
**** The salary for this position is $24.00 Hourly
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* JOB SUMMARY:

** The Water Meter Repair Technician (Assistant Technician), under the general supervision of the Industrial Meter Repair Crew Chief, is responsible for assisting the lead technician on a meter service truck in completing assigned field work. This hands-on role involves a variety of skilled mechanical and field service tasks such as testing, repairing, rebuilding, installing, and changing out water meters ranging from 1½” to 12” in size.

The assistant helps the Lead Technician with locating and repairing leaks, servicing fire lines, valves, registers, endpoints, and other related components, frequently working in confined spaces and inside meter vaults up to 15 feet deep. The work often requires the use of specialized tools, power equipment, and manual labor in outdoor environments and challenging conditions. In addition to fieldwork, the technicians respond to customer service requests, investigates service-related issues.

This is a physically demanding role that requires stamina, precision, technical skill, and sound decision-making along with a strong commitment to safety, teamwork, and excellent customer service, particularly in high pressure or emergency situations.
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* ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

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* * Assists the lead on a two person work crew, including responsibility for the assigned vehicle and tools, while completing daily assignments.
* Receives, reviews and performs work while serving as a competent person on the job site.
* Disassembles, repairs, reassembles, tests, installs, and changes out multi-family, commercial, and industrial water meters in accordance with AWWA and City Utility Department standards.
* Performs physically demanding tasks using machines or tools to cut pipes or other materials inside meter vaults.
* Works in confined spaces, often under high water pressure conditions.
* Inspects water meter connections for leaks; replaces pipes and other materials as needed.
* Assists with correcting meter vault deficiencies and repairing service lines.
* Reports on fire hydrant leaks, water main leaks and other distribution issues in a timely manner.
* Interrogates…