Meter Mechanic II

The City of Fort Myers strives to be an employer of choice and most of our employees turn jobs into long term careers. The salary shown in the job description is the full range for this position from entry to later career.

NEW EMPLOYEES ARE HIRED AT, OR NEAR THE ENTRY POINT SHOWN, DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Safety Sensitive : YES Level II Screening : NO

Under the general direction of the designated supervisor, performs a wide variety of skilled, journey-level duties in the testing, field rebuilding and repair, replacement and servicing of residential, industrial, and commercial water meters ranging in size from 5/8 to 3 inch and above. This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Responsibilities and Reporting During an Emergency Situation :

Essential Employees may be required to work during a declared emergency. Depending on the nature of the emergency, this may require working around the clock for several days on short notice.

Non-Essential Employees will not be required to work during a declared emergency. The employees Department Head will determine when the employee will be required to work.

Perks and Benefits

• Free city-paid employee health coverage, additional for spouse or family
• 3 weeks Paid Time Off (sick & vacation)
• 13 paid holidays
• Pension plan & optional Deferred Compensation
• City-paid life insurance
• Optional Vision, Dental, and Disability Insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site Gym facility
• And much more!

• Receive and respond to emergency and routine work order requests.
• Test and repair water meters.
• Install water meters.
• Perform meter maintenance.
• Drive and maintain motor vehicles; maintain equipment and supplies necessary to complete assigned tasks.
• This position requires regular and reliable attendance and the employees physical presence at the workplace.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

When assigned to Meter Services / Customer Service :

• May participate in on-call duty.
• Perform after hour service as assigned.

• Repair leaks within the meter box, customer side or city side.
• Responsible for maintenance of meter boxes and lids, trim bushes, meter box replacement, and cleaning out of meter box.
• Ability to operate and use a smart phone and other forms of technology.
• Ability to work with an AMI (Automatic Meter Infrastructure) system.
• Ability to look up and correctly obtain key/relevant information in the billing system needed for completing assigned work/tasks/duties.
• Ability and willingness to complete an acceptable amount of work orders during a workday based on repair priority criteria.
• Performs curb stop change out 5/8 to 2.
• Install hydrant meters as needed.
• Perform meter change out as scheduled.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Skill in organization, attention to detail, prioritization, and time management.
• Ability to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to operate necessary equipment, including hand tools etc.
• Ability to understand the organization and operation of the City and of outside agencies as necessary to assume assigned responsibilities.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and interpretation based on acquired knowledge in circumstances where limited standardization exists.

• High School diploma or GED.
• Two years experience in utilities billing or related work.
• Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) Mandatory Drug/Alcohol Testing required.
• Must possess Florida Drivers License with an acceptable driving record.

This work typically requires the following physical activities to be performed.

• Balancing maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.

• Pushing use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.

• Reaching extending hands or arms in any direction.

• Repetitive Motion substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.

• Speaking expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.

• Standing for sustained periods of time.

• Stooping bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.

• Climbing ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.

• Crouching bending body forward by bending leg, spine.

• Feeling perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.

• Fingering picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.

• Grasping applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.

• Handling picking, holding, or working with whole hand.

• Hearing 1 perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.

• Hearing 2 receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.

• Kneeling bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.

• Lifting raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.

• Mental Acuity ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.

• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.

• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word

• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.

• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.

• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.

• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

Work performed is primarily:

• Medium work : Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Contact with internal and external customers.
• Ability to perform strenuous work in varying and adverse weather conditions.
• May be exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; risk of electrical shock; risk of vibration.
• May be required to work hours other than the regular schedule including evenings, weekends, holidays and during emergencies.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description .