Qualifications:
This Is a temporary job expected to last 4 months; this will have a possible transition to a full-time employee if available positions are open at the end of the contract.
Education and Experience:
- High school graduate/or GED
- Special Qualifications (May be required depending on area of assignment):
- Florida Driver's License.
- Leadership experience preferred.
- Assignment to work a variety of work schedules, including compulsory work periods in special, emergency, and/or disaster situations.
- skilled utilities field experience with responsibility for water delivery system, water quality monitoring/flushing, flushing-related system inspections, flushing maintenance tracking reports, plus two
- Other knowledge, skills, abilities, and credentials required for a specific position.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to apply computer applications to communicate with others, coordinate, track, and document activities as well as prepare customer complaint reports;
- Ability to complete written or electronic field data records;
- Ability to formulate and present ideas and findings clearly and concisely in written, oral, or graphic form;
- Ability to interact tactfully and courteously with the public and other agencies;
- Ability to operate irrigation water distribution infrastructure such as valves, fire hydrants, and blow-offs, along with the ability to evaluate maintenance requirements;
- Ability to perform water quality monitoring utilizing field test equipment;
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, plats, maps, aerial photos, and diagrams.
Responsibilities:
Performs specialized field and technical work performing flushing tasks and associated job duties in monitoring, scheduling, and performing irrigation water quality related functions connected with the operation of the non-potable water distribution system; works on flushing the non-potable water distribution system utilizing flushing equipment systems and flushing devices utilizing equipment and technologies that ensure proper cleaning of irrigation lines; checks and monitors the water quality in the distribution system; reviews reports and implements maintenance schedules for equipment to maintain proper water quality and flushing for an assigned area; reviews and monitors flushing equipment; initiates, prepares, and reviews work orders and administratively tracks work orders covering maintenance, repairs, and improvements; identifies, describes, schedules, and tracks flushing related plans and activities.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS (examples, not all inclusive)
- Reviews utility distribution system maps to determine water source and flow, proper valves, and adequate flushing locations to conduct specific flushing activities throughout the distribution system;
- Determines the operational status of valves, hydrants, and blow-offs, and has the knowledge and skills necessary to properly document the equipment and the repairs needed so that work orders can be generated for follow-up repairs;
- Operates water distribution system infrastructure, including valves, hydrants, and blow-offs, to utilize various flushing techniques to restore and maintain water quality;
- Maintains and operates monitoring equipment and assures applicable quality control/quality assurance procedures are followed;
- Implements a water distribution flushing plan and procedures using automated technologies for mapping, Cityworks, and other GIS-related flushing tracking technologies.
- Prepares written or electronic reports covering customer complaints and generates service maps of the irrigation water distribution system, calculations, maintenance requirements, and water quality characteristics;
- Applies basic water monitoring procedures while utilizing flushing techniques and operating valves, blow-offs, and fire hydrants in connection with distribution system maintenance and other flushing processes
- Monitors, schedules, tracks, and ensures completion of planned or scheduled preventative/corrective maintenance flushing, projects, and tasks;
- Collects and maintains technical water quality data and evaluates historical trends;
- Generates field data records containing the flushing locations, infrastructure utilized, flow, and water loss;
- Maintains inventory of parts and tools required for flushing operations
- Reports to Lead Flushing Technician.
- Performs other related job duties as assigned.
WORKING CONDITIONS
- Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity to change and responsiveness to changing goals, priorities, and needs.
Comments/Special Instructions
- Work and interview location will be 4880 Morse Blvd, Wildwood. Fl. 34785