Laborer - Water

Explore a Rewarding Career with the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Spanning just 7 square miles in south Central Pennsylvania, the City of Lancaster is home to nearly 60,000 diverse residents. The City oversees a range of public services including fire and police, health, housing, parks, streets, as well as water and wastewater for upwards of 120,000 customers in the surrounding region. This work is powered by nearly 600 employees who are committed to the core values of quality, teamwork, integrity, and respect.

Mayor Arroyo's Strategic Priorities

• An Economy That Works
  - Driving equitable growth, empowering small businesses, and creating opportunities that strengthen our community.
• Government That Delivers
  - Leading with integrity, accountability, and action to meet the needs of every resident and build trust in our city's future.
• A City Built for Everyone
  - Ensuring safe streets, quality housing, and a community where every person has the tools they need to succeed.

Our Core Values:
Quality. Teamwork. Integrity. Respect.

Performs routine manual work, usually of a repetitive nature; an employee in this class is responsible for performing duties primarily requiring physical exertion.

• Follows safe practices in the performance of duties.
• Cleans sewers, inlets, and water systems; washes windows, walls, and cleans building.
• Uses manual and/or power-operated tools on routine tasks.
• Performs routine maintenance of equipment and vehicles.
• Loads and unloads gravel, dirt, leaves, sewer pipes, timber, chemicals, asphalt, salt, storm drain pipes, sign materials, tools, and equipment.
• Performs extreme physical labor for extended periods of time under all weather conditions, with the ability to lift objects weighing up to one hundred (100) pounds.
• Manually removes litter from right-of-way and easements.
• Climbs ladders.
• Manipulates both large and small tool parts.
• Removes and replaces various types of pavement.
• Uses and operates manual and power-operated tools and equipment, including but not limited to jackhammers, pavement breakers, shovels, sledgehammers, post drivers, tamp bars, chainsaws, compressors, cement mixers, and weed eaters.
• Performs manual labor involving loading and unloading trucks, digging ditches, cutting brush, and similar tasks.
• Digs holes and trenches.
• Drives and operates Public Works vehicles and equipment of various types.
• Restores streets; finishes surfaces to line and grade.
• Responsible for maintaining street cans that are sometimes overflowing from the weekends and special events downtown.
• Responsible for citizen complaints, emergencies, storm damage, etc. that come in after the second shift has ended.
• Performs inlet cleaning, leaf removal, and snow and ice control.
• Provides assistance to journey persons.
• Performs additional work duties as assigned.

• Assists with televising operations as camera assistant.
• Removes and replaces storm drains with assistance which can weigh up to 285 pounds.
• Removes and replaces manhole covers which can weigh up to 165 pounds.
• Performs heavy manual labor to install, maintain, clean and repair water and sewer lines/mains, fire hydrants, manholes and valves.
• Performs construction of basic repairs on water and sewer lines of various sizes, shoring of ditches, and confined space entry.
• Carries equipment and materials for maintenance and repair of water/wastewater utilities such as opening manholes, vaults; shovels and carries heavy loads.

• Performs water system flushing (night shift)
• Installs water, sewer, and storm sewer pipe and manholes/inlets efficiently and safely
• May be assigned to a 4x10 schedule (40 regular hours) for construction work depending on project needs.
• Opens and closes water valves, maintains fire hydrants, and replaces worn or defective parts
• May sand, scrape, and paint fire hydrants
• Cuts, fits, lays, repairs, taps, and makes water main cuts.
• Works in construction zones including in trenches.
• Responds to emergency situations as assigned (24/7).

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