Meter Services Worker - WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS FOR TARRANT COUNTY : Job Details

Job Summary: Under general direction, completes daily work orders related to meter services including installation, termination, lock outs, repairs, and resolving problems in the field.Essential Job Functions:

• Ability to turn on water services for new customers, turn off for closed or delinquent accounts, and record meter readings for final billings in assigned territory.
• Ability to respond to emergency calls; investigate customer complaints related to pressure, flow, leaks, or high consumption.
• Ability to replace defective control meters and control valves, leaking gaskets, damaged boxes, and lids to the metering site.
• Ability to assist on large meter crew performing maintenance on meters size 3 to 10 .

Other Job Functions:

• Ability to perform scheduled change outs of aged or malfunctioning meters, 3/4 to 1 in size.
• Ability to assist meter reading in facilitating safe access to metering sites by repairing reported defects and clearing impediments at the metering site.

Minimum Qualifications:Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Knowledge of water utilities and operations, policies, procedures, and ordinances.
• Knowledge of specifications for all size meters and metering sites, metering functions and related terminology.
• Skills in the maintenance of water meter and service connections.
• Skills in quickly ascertaining problems with malfunctioning meters and determining quick resolutions.
• Ability to use a variety of tools and equipment used in the trade.
• Ability to understand and visualize combined metering scenarios.
• Ability to respond to an on a scheduled on-call basis and to work extended periods of time under imposed emergency assignments.
• Ability to lift or exert forces equivalent to lifting up to 100 lbs.
• Ability to perform arithmetic calculations accurately.
• Ability to work in confined spaces under extreme weather conditions.
• Ability to operate a variety of equipment including, but not limited to PC, calculator, 2-way radio, jack hammer, and porta-power winch.
• Ability to perform a variety of physical skills including but not limited to carrying, data entry, dragging, driving, holding, kneeling, lifting, pulling, pushing, seeing, sorting, sitting, standing, squatting, stooping, twisting body, walking and writing.
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and make fine discriminations in sound.

Qualifying Education and Experience:Completion of high school. Must successfully pass a background check