Water Operator (Training Crew)

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $25.00 - $36.37 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce

• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development

• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services

• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems

• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

SUMMARY

Charlotte’s local government, with more than 9,000 employees and a total budget of $4.49 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330,000 customer accounts and over 1300 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews, and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 27 operating budget is $685.6 million and a five-year capital program of $2.5 billion.

SALARY:

The salary for this position is: $26.19-$29.09 hourly, Commensurate with Experience.

Job Summary:

This position operates light, medium, and heavy equipment. Work involves requesting utility and other underground line locates to avoid damaging services; operates backhoe/loader, excavator, and other heavy equipment to dig trenches to grade at construction sites; using hand tools and small powered equipment such as shovels and saws; making sure tools and equipment are available and in working condition; and digging water & sewer mains and services, making repairs. This position also takes responsibility for crews when the Labor Crew Chief II is not present, provides related training, and serves as the competent person on the job site.

Essential Job Functions:          

• Preform pre-trip/post inspections on equipment.

• Use of trenching and shoring equipment

• Assesses job site and requests utility and other underground line locates to avoid damaging services.

• Puts up and takes down safety zone equipment. Properly setup and breakdown traffic control safety zones.

• Operates backhoe/loader, excavator, and other heavy equipment to dig trenches to grade at construction sites.

• Digs and repairs water & sewer mains and services etc.

• Uses hand tools and small powered equipment such as shovels and saws.

• Operates trucks and trailers; safely loads and unloads heavy equipment, materials, and supplies.

• Ensures tools/equipment are available and in good operating condition each day.

• Performs work to meet safety regulations and quality/production standards

• Assumes responsibility for the crew when the Labor Crew Chief II is absent.

• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements To Perform Work:

• High school diploma or completion of GED from an accredited school.

• Two (2) years of related work experience operating heavy equipment.

Licenses, Certifications or Registrations:

• Requires valid driver’s license. 

• Must obtain and maintain a City’s Driver’s Permit.

• Requires (or obtain within six (6) months of hire date) a Class A commercial driver’s license (CDL) with Tankers endorsement.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of basic computer skills

• Ability to follow instructions

• Apply safe work practices

• Knowledge of how to dig trenches to grade at construction sites.

• Knowledge of trenching and shoring.

• Knowledge of operating equipment related to job functions.

• Skill to communicate, both verbally or in writing.

• Skill in operating light to heavy equipment, such as backhoe/loaders, excavators, trucks, trailers, etc.

• Skill in properly using/caring for basic ha