Job Description

Requisition ID: 108273 

 

Share Our Purpose. Be Yourself. Feel Valued.  

 

People are the heart of our business. As an American Water employee, you will be offered a competitive salary and health benefits package, along with opportunities to develop, grow, and evolve your career. Our benefits packages focus on key areas such as health & wellness, emotional & well-being, and savings for current & future goals.

 

We are Beautifully Different . We strongly believe having diversity across our company makes us more successful and helps us provide essential services to our customers. We are stronger because we embrace different ideas, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds. American Water is the best choice for your next role! Click here for more information on our inclusion, diversity, and equity journey.

 

About American Water
American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States. With a history dating back to 1886, We Keep Life Flowing® by providing safe, clean, reliable and affordable drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across 14 regulated jurisdictions and 18 military installations. American Water’s 6,500 talented professionals leverage their significant expertise and the company’s national size and scale to achieve excellent outcomes for the benefit of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders.

As one of the fastest growing utilities in the U.S., American Water expects to invest $40 to $42 billion in infrastructure repairs and replacement, system resiliency and regulated acquisitions over the next 10 years. The company has a long-standing history of executing its core operations, aligned with sustainable best practices, through its commitments to safety, affordability, customer service, protecting the environment, an inclusive workforce and strengthening communities.

American Water has been recognized on the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the fifth consecutive year, ranked 18th on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies 2023 List, earned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act designation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense® Excellence Award, among additional state, local and national recognitions.

For more information, visit  amwater.com and join American Water on  LinkedIn ,  Facebook ,  Twitter and  Instagram .

 

 

 

Primary Role

Performs a variety of tasks to assist in the efficient and reliable operation, maintenance, protection, and appearance of all pipelines, services, hydrants, valves, and other appurtenances within the distribution system.

Key Accountabilities

• Constantly performs work assigned by supervisor; collects, compiles, and records work data. Constantly breaks up pavement, using pavement breakers, pry bars, shovels, picks, and other hand tools to dig excavations preparatory to removing and/or repairing pipes.
• Frequently backfills, tamps, and installs temporary paving, using assorted hand tools and tamping machine. Frequently ensures jobsite is secure prior to leaving. Frequently determines appropriate material, pipe sections, valves, and fittings needed to perform assigned work.
• Frequently performs cutting, threading, brazing, soldering, and connecting or adjoining pipe and fittings, as required. Frequently performs taps, as required. Occasionally drives company vehicles including backhoe, as required. Occasionally installs or removes shoring systems, as required.
• Constantly follows established safety guidelines and procedures. Occasionally performs duties of Laborer, as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Experience/Education

• High School graduate or State-recognized Educational Equivalency Certificate.
• Specific vocational preparation includes an occupationally-significant combination of vocational education, apprentice training, in-plant training, on-the-job training, or essential experience.

Work Environment

• All work is outside work in all types of weather and involving contact with water or other liquids.
• Atmospheric condition with moisture content sufficiently high to cause marked bodily discomfort.
• Exposure to ambient temperature extremes both hot and cold. Works near gasoline, oil, or substances in the soil.
• Potential exposure to poison ivy, oak, sumac, insects, etc.
• Subject to potential hazards such as driving/driving in darkness, working in traffic/darkness, and working with and around excavation equipment and compressed air.
• Subject to noise exposure and vibration from jack hammer, air compressor, trash pumps, and gas tamp.

Competencies

Champions safety

Customer obsessed

Cultivates innovation

Nimble learning

Drives Results

Collaborates

 

 

Join American Water... We Keep Life Flowing ™

 

American Water is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because they are an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.

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