Water Plant Maintenance Mechanic - Cogent Infotech Corporation
St. Louis, MO
About the Job
Location: St. Louis, MO
Incumbents in this position are responsible for repairing and maintaining water processing
and distribution equipment.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Inspects, repairs and maintains water plant and distribution equipment and
components such as pumps, motors, valves, intake screens, sluice gates,
compressors, feed lines and others.
Repairs and maintains overhead cranes and boats.
Designs, fabricates and installs piping and structural steel.
Maintains regulators.
May occasionally use overhead cranes, rigging equipment, lifting equipment, and
motor boats.
Utilizes Water Department equipment as needed.
Performs other duties as assigned.
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Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to process, calculate, compute, summate, and/or
tabulate data and/or information. Includes the ability to perform subsequent action
in relation to these computational operations.
Human Interaction: Requires the 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: Requires the ability to operate
equipment and machinery requiring monitoring multiple conditions and making
multiple, complex and rapid adjustments, such as hand and power tools, drills, saws,
grinders, pullers, threading/tapping equipment, wrenches, welders, cutting torches
and motor vehicles. Ability to repair complex equipment and machinery.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and
descriptive data and information such as regulations, blueprints, equipment
manuals, time sheets, tool catalogs, shop manuals and general operating manuals.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division; calculate percentages, fractions and decimals; perform
mathematical operations involving basic geometry.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the 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 objective.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and
creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against
measurable or verifiable criteria.
Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental
conditions, such as dirt, dust, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise
extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents.
Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the regular and sustained performance of
moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of
climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting, carrying,
pushing, and pulling moderately heavy objects and materials, twenty (20) to fifty (50)
pounds.
Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or
differences between characteristics of colors and shapes to follow color coded
diagrams and clearly distinguish objects, sounds to detect malfunctioning equipment
and tools.
Qualifications
Some experience in repairing and maintaining a variety of heavy mechanical equipment
that includes welding and pipe work; OR, successful completion of a welding, pipefitting, or
millwright apprenticeship program; OR, some experience as a welder, pipefitter, or
millwright.
License: Must possess and maintain a valid Missouri driver s license while employed by the
City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing the application
and be able to present it upon request. Please note the type of license, number, class and
expiration date on the Employment Application.
- Qualifications: Strongly desirable to be a journeyman millwright (journeyman pipefitters will be considered) who have completed an apprenticeship program registered by the Department of Labor or equivalent.
Incumbents in this position are responsible for repairing and maintaining water processing
and distribution equipment.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Inspects, repairs and maintains water plant and distribution equipment and
components such as pumps, motors, valves, intake screens, sluice gates,
compressors, feed lines and others.
Repairs and maintains overhead cranes and boats.
Designs, fabricates and installs piping and structural steel.
Maintains regulators.
May occasionally use overhead cranes, rigging equipment, lifting equipment, and
motor boats.
Utilizes Water Department equipment as needed.
Performs other duties as assigned.
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Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to process, calculate, compute, summate, and/or
tabulate data and/or information. Includes the ability to perform subsequent action
in relation to these computational operations.
Human Interaction: Requires the 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: Requires the ability to operate
equipment and machinery requiring monitoring multiple conditions and making
multiple, complex and rapid adjustments, such as hand and power tools, drills, saws,
grinders, pullers, threading/tapping equipment, wrenches, welders, cutting torches
and motor vehicles. Ability to repair complex equipment and machinery.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and
descriptive data and information such as regulations, blueprints, equipment
manuals, time sheets, tool catalogs, shop manuals and general operating manuals.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division; calculate percentages, fractions and decimals; perform
mathematical operations involving basic geometry.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the 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 objective.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and
creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against
measurable or verifiable criteria.
Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental
conditions, such as dirt, dust, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise
extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents.
Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the regular and sustained performance of
moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of
climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting, carrying,
pushing, and pulling moderately heavy objects and materials, twenty (20) to fifty (50)
pounds.
Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or
differences between characteristics of colors and shapes to follow color coded
diagrams and clearly distinguish objects, sounds to detect malfunctioning equipment
and tools.
Qualifications
Some experience in repairing and maintaining a variety of heavy mechanical equipment
that includes welding and pipe work; OR, successful completion of a welding, pipefitting, or
millwright apprenticeship program; OR, some experience as a welder, pipefitter, or
millwright.
License: Must possess and maintain a valid Missouri driver s license while employed by the
City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing the application
and be able to present it upon request. Please note the type of license, number, class and
expiration date on the Employment Application.
Source : Cogent Infotech Corporation