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Seasonal Collection & Distribution Lines Tech at Highlands Ranch Metro and Centennial Water & Sanitation Districts – Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Highlands Ranch Metro and Centennial Water & Sanitation Districts
Highlands Ranch, Colorado, 80129, United States
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🌊Jumpstart Your Career in the Water Industry!

Highlands Ranch Water is looking for driven and hands-on individuals to join our team as a seasonal Collections & Distributions Lines Tech! This is your chance to get real-world experience in one of the most essential industries—helping maintain, operate, and repair the water distribution system, with occasional work in wastewater collection.

  • Get hands-on training in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Work alongside industry pros who are passionate about water
  • Enjoy a semi-flexible full-time/seasonal schedule
  • Gain valuable skills that can launch your career

If you’re hardworking, punctual, eager to learn, and ready to be part of a team that keeps communities running, we want you on board! Apply today and take the first step toward a rewarding future in water services!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Loads, unloads, and transports equipment and personnel in District vehicles to a variety of work sites.
  • Maintains and operates all assigned tools and equipment.
  • Performs work in accordance with safety policies and procedures.
  • Performs a variety of semi-skilled routine manual labor and diverse duties such as digging, lifting, painting, landscaping, vehicle maintenance, valve and fire hydrant maintenance, and utility manhole inspections, etc.
  • Enters and exits confined spaces such as underground vaults and manholes.
  • Assists other District personnel in maintenance and repair of equipment, machinery, buildings, and grounds.
  • Performs other duties and special assignments which may be outside the primary areas of employment.
  • Assist other sections as needed to complete the goals of the organization.
  • Participate and attend safety and training courses.
Desired Minimum Qualifications
  • High school diploma or GED equivalent is required.
  • Must possess and maintain a valid Driver’s License with an acceptable Motor Vehicle Record.
  • Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age.
Necessary Knowledge, Experience, Skills and Abilities
  • Give and take directions and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
  • Take directions from others as well as work alone with minimal supervision and exercise independent judgment.
  • Team player, willing to jump in and help wherever needed.
  • Demonstrate safe and effective use while operating listed tools and equipment.
  • Perform strenuous manual labor.
  • Computers and an iPad to enter and record daily maintenance tasks and generate work orders in our asset management program.
  • Read maps and schematic drawings.
  • Work with people from diverse backgrounds and points of view as part of a team.
  • Follow through tasks and adapt to changing priorities, process conditions, and circumstances.
  • Become certified in confined spaces and use that knowledge to occasionally enter and exit confined spaces such as underground vaults and manholes.
  • Experience with mechanical maintenance work is preferred with a willingness to learn more.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, supervisors, other departments, officials and the public and work with people from diverse backgrounds and points of view as part of a team.
  • Represent the district professionally with integrity and excellence. Encourage a respectful, collaborative, and accountable work environment while demonstrating ethical conduct in all interactions.
Work Schedule

This is a seasonal position working up to 40 hours per week, typically between the hours of 7:00a.m. to 3:30p.m., Monday through Friday. Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the job.

Supervision Received

Works under the direct supervision of the Lines Supervisor.

Tools and Equipment Used

Power and hand tools typically used in water distribution and wastewater collection facilities and building maintenance such as power and hand tools, pressure gauges, ladders, valve keys, paint brushes, pumps, brooms, mops, manhole hooks, Safety Data sheets, personal protective equipment, motor vehicles, telephone, radio, gas detection monitors, fall arresters, and other safety equipment. Computer software and hardware, general office and breakroom equipment.

Physical Demands

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools, controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to taste or smell.

The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the job.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works outside in all types of weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/ or humid conditions, fumes, airborne particles, traffic, toxic, or caustic chemicals.

Work is performed both indoors and outdoors during all seasons of the year and is performed in potentially hazardous environments: i.e. confined spaces, electrical, infectious, and mechanical hazards.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. May be asked to report during non-scheduled hours.

Selection Guidelines

Formal application or resume, rating of education and experience, interview, reference check, background check and job-related tests might be required.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific states of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the District’s and requirements of the job change.

Highlands Ranch Water & Sanitation District is dedicated to the principles of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act and prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age over 40, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Application Information

Pre-employment screening includes a background check and motor vehicle record check.

Applications are accepted for at least two weeks or until the position is filled.

Submit applications at highlandsranch.org/apply or if viewing this posting from our career center, click "Apply" below.

Job Location

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, 80129, United States
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