Job Location Water Division - St. Louis, MO Job Overview Incumbents in this position maintain and repair Water Division production and distribution systems, equipment, and grounds for the purposes of maintaining the City’s water distribution system. Essential Functions and Responsibilities + Install stop planks on basins to detour flows and seal leakage. + Clean water treatment basins, tunnels, and conditioners. + Operate various valves and sewer gates for flood protection, shut off water mains, basin cleaning, and draining. + Provide plant visitor check-in at the front gate (Howard Bend Plant). + Filter renovations: jackhammer out filter rock, vacuum out debris, and replace with new filter rock. + Concrete renovations; break out, clean out, prep site, and help place new concrete. + Asphalt repairs; general repairs to roads and replacement due to construction. + Install and repair water mains. + Hand dig trenches for various water, chemical, electrical, storm, and sewer lines in and around various obstacles and utility crossings. + Backfill, tamp, and level various construction areas prior to seeding and straying. + Help erect, repair, and maintain chain link fencing and barriers around plant perimeter and reservoirs. + Clean out various sewers, manholes, and street drains along plant grounds. + Operate motor vehicles including forklift, pickup, and dump trucks. + Operate grounds maintenance equipment and tractors. + Perform custodial maintenance in service building and garage areas. + Operate small power tools such as jackhammer, chipping hammer, tamper, water pump, air compressor, toxic gas monitor, generators, etc. + Install platforms, railing, grating, and ladders on and around basins. + Make work sites safe by installing barricades, warning tape, or cones. + Pick up parts, supplies, and materials for continuous operation of plant functions. + Mix concrete for repairs and for use in fabricated lids, curbs, and pipe supports. + Act as lead person when assigned. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities + Data Utilization: Ability to compile, assemble, copy, record, and/or transcribe data and information according to a prescribed scheme or plan. + Human Interaction: Ability to explain, demonstrate, and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures, and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from others. + Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Use: Ability to operate and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery, and tools such as hand and power tools, threading/tapping equipment, wrenches, forklift, jackhammer, loader, backhoe, and trucks and/or related materials used in performing essential functions. + Verbal Aptitude: Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as safety regulations, work orders, maps, blueprints, and general operating manuals. + Mathematical Aptitude: Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate percentage and decimals. + Functional Reasoning: Ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives. Other Requirements + Positions require shift, weekend, and holiday assignments, mandatory overtime, and 24-hour emergency call. + Shift differential of 1% is paid for evening, night, and weekend shifts. Qualifications Some experience in outdoor maintenance and/or grounds work. License Must possess and maintain a valid Missouri driver’s license while employed by the Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present license upon request. Please note type of license, number, class, and license expiration date on the Employment Application. Preferences + Experience in water or sewer line construction. + Skill in the use of engine-driven pumps, power saws, jackhammers, air compressors, and related construction equipment.