Field Service Tech II

Keep the City of Midland flowing smoothly, literally! As a Maintenance Technician I in the Meter Division, you'll be an essential part of ensuring every home, business, and facility receives accurate and reliable water service. From troubleshooting meter issues to performing installations, diagnostics, and customer support, your work helps protect the integrity of our water system and keeps residents connected to one of our most critical resources.

This is a hands-on, field-focused position perfect for problem solvers who take pride in precision, teamwork, and quality service. You'll use a mix of technical skills, equipment operation, and customer interaction to keep our meter infrastructure running at its best. If you're ready to make a direct impact on your community and grow in a vital, fast-moving field, this is your chance to build a rewarding career, one meter at a time.

Essential Job Functions & Other Important Duties:

* Investigates and reports meter failures.

* Operates commercial meter test bench as well as field testing equipment and generates a report.

* Maintains storehouse, including loss prevention and inventory control.

* Processes workflow with MCare software package.

* Maintains, reads, installs, repairs, replaces and connects/disconnects water meters to complete work orders and assignments.

* Organizes tools, equipment and supplies necessary to complete assignments.

* Inspects, cleans, and maintains equipment and tools in safe operating order.

* Performs routine inspections of assigned areas to detect any necessary repairs or hazardous conditions.

* Cleans work sites and replaces landscaping.

* Paints, repairs, and maintains equipment, furniture, and facilities.

* Performs crew leader duties as needed which include:

Other Important Duties:

* Provides backup assistance, on-call coverage and support to other City departments as assigned.

* May occasionally be required to work on-call, evenings, or weekends.

* Travels to attend meetings and training.

* Performs other related duties as assigned.

* Regular and consistent attendance for the assigned work hours is essential.

Environmental Factors & Conditions/Physical Requirements

* Work is performed in an outdoor environment.

* May be exposed to moving traffic, extreme weather conditions, hazardous chemicals, fumes, heights, confined spaces, trenches, air and water borne pathogens, body fluids, infectious diseases, rodents and insects.

* Balancing - maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.

* Climbing - ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.

* Crawling - moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.

* Crouching - bending body forward by bending leg, spine.

* Feeling - perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.

* Fingering - picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.

* Grasping - applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.

* Handling - picking, holding, or working with whole hand.

* Hearing 1 - perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.

* Hearing 2 - receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.

* Kneeling - bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.

* Lifting - raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.

* Mental Acuity - ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.

* Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.

* Pushing - use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.

* Reaching - extending hands or arms in any direction.

* Repetitive Motion - substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.

* Speaking - expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.

* Standing - for sustained periods of time.

* Stooping - bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.

* Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.

* Talking 2 - shouting to be heard above ambient noise.

* Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.

* Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.

* Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.

* Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.

* Visual Acuity 5
-close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.

* Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

Work Environment      

Work performed is primarily heavy work exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Equipment and Tools Utilized:

Equipment utilized includes personal computer, copier, calculator, fax machine, other standard office equipment, engineering and drafting equipment, and department vehicles.

Job Requirements

* Knowledge of general…