Senior Water Utility Technician

Overview

At the City of Tigard, our talented, industrious, and innovative municipal government professionals have been providing essential services and recreational spaces to Tigard’s growing community for over 60 years. City of Tigard team members enjoy meaningful work, a diverse and inclusive culture of belonging, job specific flexibility and opportunities for growth and advancement. Incorporated in 1961, Tigard is Oregon’s 12th largest city and is part of the Portland metropolitan area.

At Team Tigard, we are the ambassadors of our municipal services to the members of our community. We aspire to treat all people with dignity, respect, and care; to demonstrate the equitable and sustainable practices that are environmentally and fiscally sound, and to engage with each other as trusted colleagues to achieve excellence in all we do. We do the right things, and we get things done.

• Will assist as technical lead in Aquifer Storage and Recovery projects including well pump/motor/motor control center rehabilitation.
• Assist as technical lead implementing capital maintenance projects.
• Will take part and assist as technical lead in operating and maintaining the water distribution system hydraulic network.
• Assist in implementing a new preventive maintenance program in our Asset Maintenance Management System (AMMS) over the next year.
• Provides technical and functional direction to assigned water utility technicians and utility worker maintenance staff; reviews and controls quality of work; participates in performing routine to complex maintenance and repair work.
• Inspects and repairs underground water pipes, valves, meters, and associated appurtenances to locate leaks, breaks, and infiltration on a scheduled preventive as well as corrective maintenance basis.
• Responds to customer calls regarding leaks, questions, or complaints about reported water usage, water quality, and other customer-related issues.

Education and Experience:

Any combination of training and experience, which would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:

• Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth (12th) grade supplemented by two (2) years of college-level coursework or specialized technical training in a related field and four (4) years of increasingly responsible experience performing skilled maintenance experience in water distribution systems.

SEIU

General working days are Monday thru Thursday one week (9-hour shifts) and Friday off. The following week will be Monday thru Thursday (9-hour shifts) and an 8-hour shift on Friday. This schedule provides a three-day weekend every other week.

In addition to being a great place to work, the City of Tigard offers competitive employee benefits for full-time and part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week:

• Choice of health and dental plans
• Generous retirement plan
• City-paid HRA-VEBA
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• 10 paid holidays plus 28 hours of floating holiday (3.5 days of floating holiday)
• Life and disability insurance
• Universal transit pass through Tri Met

This job classification is represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), OPEU Local 503

Which of the following best describes your highest level of education?

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Associate's Degree
• Associate's Degree and additional coursework
• Bachelor's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree and additional coursework
• Master's Degree or higher

Which best describes your years of increasingly responsible experience performing skilled maintenance experience in water distribution systems?

• less than 2 years
• 2-3 years
• 3-4 years
• 4 or more years

Please describe your experience and knowledge related to municipal water operation. Maintenance, and construction, including any prior work experience in water pumps, wells, motor control panels, water pipe construction, SCADA or other software control systems and other related water distribution components.

Please describe any work experience as a senior lead or project lead completing work on water distribution system components.