Sewer Technician

This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/13671911 Position Summary: Under the supervision of the Assistant Public Works Director, the Sewer Technician performs skilled and semi-skilled work in daily maintenance activities of County sewer districts by performing daily inspections, daily maintenance, logging activities, responding to alarms on equipment. Performs daily maintenance activities, including preventative, routine, and emergency repairs. Performs routine and emergency maintenance. This position is provided a County vehicle to be taken home nightly for after-hours call out. # Examples of Work (Essential Functions): - Follows safety rules; - Ensures wastewater facilities are operating properly includinglagoon; - Cleansorlubricatesvehicles,machinery,equipment,instruments,tools,workareas,andotherobjects, using hand tools, power tools, and cleaningequipment; - Removes snow and ice, overgrown grass, branches, trees at facility properties andgrounds; - Performs preventative, routine and emergency repairs, and maintenance to equipment andvehicles, pumps, belts, motors; lift stations; conduct inspections on a setschedule; - Cleans out manholes and repairs sewer lines, using appropriate personal protectivegear; - Ensures operation in accordance with established procedures including pulling of samples ona schedule and deliver to lab foranalysis; - Performs locates of sewer lines for OneCall; - Performsdailyrecordkeeping,includingadministeringthepreventativemaintenanceprogram,aswell as compiling data for monthly reports to Kansas Department of Health and Environment/Environmental Protection; record all repairs, tests on pumps and flowmeter recordings; - Monitors system and applies chemicals asneeded; - Reads and understands blue prints, shop drawings, and electrical controlschematics; - Operates and maintains a variety of hand and power tools, including, but not limited to:welders, machine shoptools; - Complies with safety policies, including appropriate safetyequipment; - Reports hazards that cannot be corrected under ordinarymaintenance; - Works rotating on call shifts as required, and responds promptly to after-hoursemergencies; - Performs unskilled manual work asassigned; - Performs other duties as deemed necessary or as required. # Abilities, Knowledge, Skills: - Ability to operate a truck, tandem-axle truck, loader, mower, weed eater and other related equipment; - Ability to reliably and predictably carry outduties; - Ability to use computers, databases to trackrecords; - Abilitytoreadandinterpretdocumentssuchassafetyrules,operatingandmaintenanceinstructions, and proceduremanuals; - Ability to write routine reports andcorrespondence; - Ability to speak effectively with customers or employees of anorganization; - Abilitytocalculatefiguresandamountssuchasproportions,percentages,area,circumference,and volume; - Abilitytoapplycommonsenseunderstandingtocarryoutinstructionsfurnishedinwritten,oral,or diagramform; - Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardizedsituations; - Abilitytoconveyandreceivedetailedorimportantinstructionsandinformationtoandfromother workers and the generalpublic; - Knowledge of equipment maintenance, knowledge of emergency generators, pumps, motors, electronics, alarmsystems; - Knowledge of county roads andgeography; - Knowledge of safety operations or equipment.