Meter Reader

Meter Reader Position

Love working outdoors and solving problems? Become our next Meter Reader! If you want an active, independent career out in the community, this is your opportunity. We are seeking a dependable professional to serve as the vital link between our City's water infrastructure and our residents. In this role, you will blend hands-on mechanical work with modern tech—using Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to troubleshoot equipment, ensure billing accuracy, and help customers solve water system issues.

If you take pride in precision and want a stable career with a direct public impact, we want you on our team!

Key Responsibilities

• Tech-Driven Fieldwork: Navigate varied terrains in all weather conditions to read meters and record data using advanced handheld computers and AMI systems.
• Hands-on Infrastructure Care: Install, program, test, troubleshoot, and perform routine maintenance on water meter boxes, transmitting devices, and related equipment.
• Service Operations: Actively connect and disconnect water services, resolve public complaints, investigate leaks or meter tampering, and post official notices.
• Vehicle & Safety Management: Safely operate, inspect, and maintain your assigned City truck and tools while utilizing safe driving and traffic control practices.

Position Requirements

• Education: Equivalent to completion of the 12th grade.
• Experience: At least one (1) year of experience in mechanical maintenance, field customer service involving public contact, or general construction. Experience with water utility systems or meter reading equipment is highly desirable.
• License: Possession of, or the ability to obtain, a valid Class C California driver's license.
• Physical & Environmental Capability:
  Ability to handle medium-to-heavy physical work (lifting up to 20 lbs routinely), walk extensively in operational areas, work in confined spaces, and work comfortably outdoors amidst varied weather, noise, and environmental elements.
• Core Competencies: Strong shop arithmetic skills, technical aptitude with hand/power tools, independent judgment, and a knack for providing high-level customer service with tact and discretion.

Apply Today! This position provides a unique opportunity to build a rewarding career in public service. You will enjoy a dynamic workday where no two days are exactly the same, hands-on experience with cutting-edge utility software, and the pride of maintaining a vital resource for your community.

CLASS CHARACTERISTICS

This is a skilled level classification responsible for connecting and/or disconnecting water services, setting, maintaining, repairing and reading meters, collecting delinquent bills, and inspecting consumer property for leaks and other billing related issues. Responsibilities require the use of tact, discretion, and independent judgment and interaction with the public. Responsibilities include inspecting and attending to assigned areas in a timely manner and performing a wide variety of tasks in the installation, maintenance and repair of water meter boxes and related equipment.

This class is distinguished from Water Utility Maintenance Worker series in that the latter is responsible for performing the installation, repair, construction, and maintenance of the City's water distribution system and related appurtenances. This class is further distinguished from the Accounting Technician I in that it is required to work in the field obtaining readings and maintaining the meters.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED

Receives general supervision from the Water Utility Supervisor. No direct supervision of staff is exercised.

Examples of Essential Functions

Management reserves the rights to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job. The duties listed below represent the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them if the work is related or a logical assignment to this class.

• Reads water meters in varied terrains and in all weather conditions; records…