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Job Description:

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.

Job Duties:

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Ensures wastewater facilities are operating properly including lagoon.\ Cleans or lubricates vehicles, machinery, equipment, instruments, tools, work areas, and other objects, using hand tools, power tools, and cleaning equipment.\ Removes snow and ice, overgrown grass, branches, trees at facility properties and grounds.\ Performs preventative, routine and emergency repairs, and maintenance to equipment and vehicles, pumps, belts, motors; lift stations; conduct inspections on a set schedule.\ Cleans out manholes and repairs sewer lines, using appropriate personal protective gear.\ Ensures operation in accordance with established procedures including pulling of samples on a schedule and deliver to lab for analysis.\ Performs locates of sewer lines for One Call.\ Performs daily record keeping, including administering the preventative maintenance program, as well as compiling data for monthly reports to Kansas Department of Health and Environment/Environmental Protection; record all repairs, tests on pumps and flow meter recordings.\ Monitors system and applies chemicals as needed.\ Reads and understands blueprints, shop drawings, and electrical control schematics.\ Operates and maintains a variety of hand and power tools, including, but not limited to welders, machine shop tools.\ Complies with safety policies, including appropriate safety equipment.\ Reports hazards that cannot be corrected under ordinary maintenance.\ Works rotating on call shifts as required, and responds promptly to after-hours emergencies.\ Performs unskilled manual work as assigned.\ Performs other duties as deemed necessary or as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

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Ability to operate a truck, tandem-axle truck, loader, mower, weed eater and other related equipment.\ Ability to reliably and predictably carry out duties.\ Ability to use computers, databases to track records.\ Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.\ Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.\ Ability to speak effectively with customers or employees of an organization.\ Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.\ Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.\ Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.\ Ability to convey and receive detailed or important instructions and information to and from other workers and the general public.\ Knowledge of equipment maintenance, knowledge of emergency generators, pumps, motors, electronics, alarm systems.\ Knowledge of county roads and geography.\ Knowledge of safety operations or equipment.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk, use hands to finger, grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and t lk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; run; climb or balance and stoop, squat, bend, twist, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Lifting, moving, pushing or pulling up to 25 pounds does generally occur. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.