Water Services Operator-Distribution

Join our team and help maintain the essential infrastructure that keeps our community’s water flowing safely and reliably. In this role, you’ll support the construction, maintenance, and repair of the City’s water and reclaimed water distribution systems. You’ll operate a variety of equipment, locate and map underground utilities, ensure safety on job sites, and provide excellent service to our customers. If you enjoy hands‑on work, problem‑solving, and contributing to the reliability of vital public services, this is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact in your community.

• Provides excellent customer service to both internal and external customers.
• Operates construction equipment such as service trucks, six and ten wheeled dump trucks, portable cement mixers, portable air compressors, Hydro-excavating equipment, CCTV equipment and backhoes as required.
• Operates the following: hydraulic and pneumatic tools/equipment, soil compacting equipment, shovels, rock/digging bars, miscellaneous hand and power tools and other tools/equipment as necessary.
• Fills out daily logs, service complaint forms, cost accounting forms, and other forms and reports (both manual and computer data entry) as directed (to include planning and scheduling in the Computer Maintenance Management System or CMMS).
• Cleans services and makes minor mechanical repairs to related equipment.
• Performs heavy labor work involving periods of heavy lifting, shoveling, and pick work, including snow removal.
• Performs a variety of maintenance, construction, and repair work related to water services.
• Assists in installing and maintaining all related infrastructure within the Water and Reclaim distribution and Wastewater and Stormwater Collection systems.
• Assures proper safety precautions associated with utility construction, including traffic control, trenching/excavation, and equipment operation.
• Assists the Water Services Supervisor in estimating and requisitioning materials, supplies, and equipment needed in the maintenance of the water and reclaim distribution and Wastewater and Stormwater Collection systems.
• Assists in the selection, training, and evaluation of subordinates.
• Reads and understands maps, construction plans and as‑builts relating to Water Services.
• Performs routine facility and grounds maintenance.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment use, changes in working conditions, and quality of work.
• Review and complete various forms, reports, correspondence, Bluestake tickets such as routines, updates, recalls, emergencies, unknown line and damaged utility tickets.
• Operate various equipment including line tracer, magnetic locator, dousing rod, and other locating equipment to locate water, reclaim water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater facilities, in public streets, alleys, utility easements and other rights of‑way, public and private.
• Consult a variety of utility maps, as‑builts, construction plans, and GIS system data and other computer mapping systems.
• Log changes in GIS or other mapping systems and related software for water, reclaim, wastewater and stormwater systems.
• May provide work direction and be responsible for the work of others.
• Performs related duties as required.

• High school diploma or G.E.D.
• At minimum, hold a valid driver’s license

• Utilities and or underground construction experience.
• Medium to Heavy equipment operation experience.
• Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, Grade One or better, license within related field.

• Must possess, or obtain upon employment, a valid Arizona class D driver’s license.
• Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure continuity.
• Completion of Arizona…