Utilities Technician II - Stormwater

Overview

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
The purpose of the position is to perform installation, repair, and maintenance work in construction and maintenance of the City s Stormwater system. Employees in this classification have previous experience in utilities installation, repair and maintenance, and function as part of work crew in accomplishing assigned tasks.

• Works with utilities crews in installation, repair and maintenance of various Stormwater assets as directed, using assigned equipment such as winch cranes, trucks, tractors.
• Conduct routine inspections on City Stormwater assets such as pump stations, lake weirs, and rain gauges.
• Performs manual excavation duties, i.e., digging tunnels, channels, work space.
• Ensures the safe operating conditions per work site, i.e., setting barricades, cones, and signs; monitoring and directing traffic.
• Restores/maintains work sites, i.e., resurfacing roadways; compacting fill; sod, soil and plant restoration.
• Performs pre-inspection and post inspection on all vehicles, equipment, and/or machinery operated; maintains inspection log.
• Operates a variety of small equipment such as jack hammers, concrete saws, chain saws, compactors, concrete sprayers.
• Uses a variety of hand held tools and equipment applicable to assigned work area, i.e., shovels, rakes, trowels, manual and skill saws, brooms, pipe cutters.
• Observes safe and proper operating procedures when operating trucks, equipment, machinery, and/or tools, in accordance with established and prescribed standards.
• Performs routine cleaning and preventive maintenance of assigned trucks, equipment, machinery, and/or tools to maintain safe and proper operating condition.
• Paints identification marks on meter boxes, valve boxes, pipes, roads, and curbs.
• The list of essential functions, as outlined herein, is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this classification. It is not necessarily descriptive of any one position in the class. The omission of an essential function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.

Performs other related duties as required.

• High school diploma or GED;
• Possession of a valid Florida driver license, class "B" standards with airbrakes and tanker endorsement or be able to obtain within 6 (six) months of hire; and possession and maintenance of a driving record which meets or exceeds minimum City driving standards or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

The City of Naples is a Tobacco-Free Workplace. Applicants for the City of Naples must not have been a user of tobacco products for at least six (6) months immediately preceding an application for employment; and, if hired, must maintain non-use of tobacco products for the duration of employment with the City of Naples. Tobacco is defined as any lighted or unlighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, nicotine dispensing device, other types of smoking product, smokeless tobacco including dip, chew or snuff.

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to compile, assemble, copy, record and/or transcribe data and/or information according to a prescribed schema or plan. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to exchange information for the purpose of obtaining information or clarifying details. Performs such within established policies, procedures and standards.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate and control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools and/or materials requiring complex and rapid adjustments.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, design, and/or advisory data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition and subtraction.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form. Involves semi-routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgement concerning choices of action.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.