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Job Description
Job Summary
The Utility Operations Supervisor is the first line supervisor responsible for the planning, organizing, scheduling, assigning, and directing of work associated with running the City’s Water and Wastewater system. The purpose of this position is to supervise work projects, oversee staff, lead, assist, and train the City's Utilities dispatchers, operators, and crews ensuring project work is completed; and completing administrative duties. Other duties include responding to citizen inquiries or complaints; and completing departmentally specific functions.
Essential Job Functions- Supervises personnel by monitoring work performance; scheduling work assignments; providing input on performance evaluation and making recommendations on hiring and disciplinary actions as needed.
- Formulates on-call schedules for staff and participates in the Supervisor on-call rotation schedule (with except for Administration Support).
- Always ensuring job site safety
- Coordination to restore site after job completion.
- Regular and consistent attendance and punctuality for the assigned work hours is essential.
- Assigns and approves overtime for weekends, holidays, and approves vacation, leave requests, and payroll worksheets.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Oversees repairs to hydrants, meters, and valves by isolating fire hydrant lead; exposing piping and assessing damages for repair; replacing or reinstalling parts; performing inspections prior to placing hydrant in service; exposing valve; isolating line segment; identifying problem; repairing valve back to operational level; and placing valve into the open position.
- Review of civil plans for new development and capital projects
- Oversees installation of new water and sewer tap service.
- Work with Geographic Information System (GIS) staff to update water and sewer maps.
Minimum Qualifications- Education: Associate degree or equivalent experience
- Experience: 5 years of related experience.
- Licenses: CDL A
- Certifications Required: TCEQ Water Class C and Wastewater Class II
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 2/21/2025 5:00 PM Central -
Special Instructions
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
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