Senior Irrigation Technician

HIRING RANGE:  $1,656.19 - $2,025.91 Biweekly

FULL SALARY RANGE:   $1,656.19  - $2,401.62 Biweekly

The City:

With over 100,000 residents, the City of Allen is a dynamic and welcoming community. The City of Allen's strong economy, diverse population, great educational institutions and quality of life makes it the ideal place to work, live, and play. The City of Allen has something to offer for everyone.

The City's Mission, is "To achieve excellence in managing development of the community and in providing city services so that conditions of living and public confidence are continually enhanced".

Our employees serve the citizens of Allen with the following values:

• People First

• Giving priority to others

• Respect

• Treating others with courtesy and dignity

• Integrity

• Serving with honesty, trust and hard work

• Deliver

• Following through on commitments while exceeding expectations

• Excel

• Creating an innovative and improving work environment

This position aims to ensure City and golf course irrigation systems are installed and operating correctly.  This is accomplished by surveying the perimeter, identifying installation needs, operating appropriate equipment such as tractors, installing irrigation systems, and inspecting existing irrigation systems as needed.  Other duties may include completing work orders, tracking supplies and installation costs, assisting other employees as needed, and interfacing with other City employees and citizens.  This position may serve as a lead.

This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following examples do not identify all duties performed by any single incumbent.

• Ensures maintenance of the City parks and golf course by performing installations of irrigation systems, digging trenches for installations, surveying perimeters, reading work orders, assisting other employees, operating tractors, voltmeters and other equipment and completing appropriate paperwork.

• Performs repairs to City irrigation systems by identifying faulty or problematic parts, replacing and repairing parts when appropriate, digging to view parts of the irrigation system, retrieving needed parts and equipment, operating equipment, and machinery such as trenchers, handling tools such as saws, hammers, and chain locks, performing preventative maintenance, wiring irrigation clocks, locating and repairing leaks and completing paperwork.

• Maintains the integrity of irrigation work by completing inspection paperwork, testing irrigation systems, indicating problems with systems, producing work orders, tracking labor costs and filing paperwork as needed.

• Provides preventative maintenance to City parks, golf course and irrigation systems by inspecting irrigation systems, determining possible repairs or upgrades, addressing problematic systems as identified by others and completing work orders for identified needs.

Education & Experience

Work requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:

• Six (6) months of advanced study or training past the high school equivalency plus one (1) year of relevant experience.

Other combinations of education and experience may be considered.

Certifications & Other Requirements

• Valid Class C Drivers License

• Irrigation License

Reading

Basic-Ability to recognize meaning of common two- or three-syllable words.  Ordinarily, such education is obtained in elementary school up to high school.  However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.

Math

Intermediate

• Ability to deal with system of real numbers; practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios/proportions and measurement.  Ordinarily, such education is obtained in elementary school up to high school.  However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.

Writing

Basic

• Ability to write simple sentences containing subject, verb, and object, and/or series of numbers, names, and addresses.  Ordinarily, such education is obtained in elementary school up to high school.  However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.

Managerial

Receives general directions.  The employee normally performs the job by following established standard operating procedures and/or policies.  The employee may choose the appropriate procedure or policy.  Performance is reviewed periodically.

Supervisory / Organizational Control

Work requires functioning as a lead worker performing essentially the same work as those directed, and includes overseeing work quality, training, instructing, and scheduling work.

Complexity

Work involves choices of action within limits set by standard practices and procedures.  Professional judgment is required to apply proper course of action.

Interpersonal / Human Relations Skills

Discussion Occasional: 20%or less of work time.

THIS POSTING MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME ONCE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.