Salary : $54,177.45 - $67,411.10 Annually

Location : Lawrenceville Public Works, GA

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Number: 202400084

Department: Gas

Function: Gas Support

Opening Date: 01/17/2025

Closing Date: 1/31/2025 4:59 PM Eastern

Description

Job Summary

This position performs technical duties in the installation, repair, and maintenance of commercial natural gas services.

Examples of Duties

Major Duties

• Responds to emergencies involving damage to gas facilities, gas mains, service lines, regulator stations, and gas fires.
• Locates and repairs leaks; repairs cut service lines.
• Repairs and maintains meter sets; sets meters for new construction and existing businesses and homes; ensures correct pressure settings.
• Meets with customers to discuss complaints of pressure problems, gas outages, etc. and makes necessary adjustments and repairs.
• Meets with customers to determine load size, meter requirements, and regulators.
• Identifies and repairs corrosion damage.
• Completes sketches and reports.
• Stocks and maintains service truck.
• Calibrates and employs gas detection sensors.
• Performs related duties.

Typical Qualifications

Knowledge Required by the Position

• Knowledge of the installation, maintenance, and repair of natural gas distribution systems.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local safety rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of basic measurement/ERT/SCADA, meter above 800 CFH, and commercial regulators.
• Knowledge of natural gas appliances.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices related to the handling of natural gas emergencies.
• Knowledge of meters and regulators.
• Knowledge of relevant federal and state laws, city codes, and department policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of computers and job-related software programs.
• Skill in the calibration and operation of gas detection equipment.
• Skill in problem solving.
• Skill in prioritizing and planning.
• Skill in interpersonal relations.
• Skill in oral and written communication.

Supplemental Information

Supervisory Controls

• The Regulatory Compliance Supervisor assigns work in terms of general instructions. The supervisor spot-checks completed work for compliance with procedures, accuracy, and the nature and propriety of the final results.

Guidelines

• Guidelines include the State of Georgia Code Title 46, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Natural Gas Fuel Code, city and county ordinances, and city and department policies and procedures. These guidelines are generally clear and specific, but may require some interpretation in application.

Complexity/Scope of Work

• The work consists of related technical duties. The need to respond to potentially dangerous emergencies contributes to the complexity of the position.
• The purpose of this position is to install, repair, and maintain gas services to commercial customers. Successful performance helps ensure the safe, effective and efficient operation of the natural gas utility system.

Contacts

• Contacts are typically with co-workers, customers, fire and law enforcement personnel, business owners, home owners, builders, and members of the general public.
• Contacts are typically to exchange information, resolve problems, and provide services.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

• The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, crouching, or stooping. The employee frequently lifts light and heavy objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, distinguishes between shades of color, and utilizes the sense of smell.
• The work is typically performed in an office, stockroom, warehouse, or outdoors, occasionally in cold or inclement weather. The employee is exposed to dust, dirt, grease, machinery with moving parts, and irritating chemicals. Work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, gloves, etc.

Supervisory and Management Responsibility

• None.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with completion of specialized training in the field of work, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education.
• Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for three to five years.
• Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid driver's license issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.

The City of Lawrenceville offers a complete benefits package to full-time employees including health care, dental, vision, retirement, deferred compensation plans, health savings accounts, life insurance, long-term disability, short-term disability, holidays, and personal time off.

Health

• Health insurance benefits become active on the 31st day of employment. Health benefits include major medical, dental, and vision. There are three options.
• PPO - Options A & B with HRA (HRA is City funded through wellness program initiatives).
• HDP with HSA (HSA is City funded through wellness initiatives and also voluntarily employee funded).

Retirement

• Retirement plans are Defined Contribution (401a), and Deferred Compensation (457b).
  • The 401a (City makes a 4% contribution beginning on first pay period after hire date)
  • 457b (Employee contributions only)

If an employee contributes at least 4% into the 457b, which is voluntary, the City will make an additional 6% contribution into the 401a, totaling 10% into the employee's 401a.

Each contribution is a percentage of the employee's earnings for that pay period.

There is a graduated vesting schedule into the 401a plan.

• One year - 20%
• Two years - 40%
• Three years - 60%
• Four years - 80%
• Five years - 100%

Protection

• There is City paid short-term disability, long-term disability, accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) and life insurance that pays two times the employee's annual salary. Employees can opt into supplemental life insurance for self, spouse and children and pay the premium.

Personal Time Off
The City observes twelve (12) paid holidays per year:

• New Year's Day
• MLK Day
• Good Friday
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day
• Juneteenth
• Labor Day
• Veterans Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Friday after Thanksgiving
• Christmas Eve
• Christmas Day
• Employees earn PTO in lieu of individual vacation and sick leave; PTO is earned as follows:
  • First year of service - 3.692 hours per pay period (Department Directors accrue PTO hours at a rate of 5.538 from first day and moving forward until after ten years of service).
  • 1-5 years of service - 5.538 hours per pay period
  • 5-10 years of service - 7.384 hours per pay period
  • 10-15 years of service - 9.230 hours per pay period
  • Over 15 years of service - 11.076 hours per pay period

Salaried employees are given 40 hours of Comp Vacation on January 1st of each year, that must be used by December 31st of that same year.

Pay Interval

• Employees are paid on a bi-weekly basis; pay periods begin on Sunday and payday is every other Thursday. There is a mandatory direct deposit requirement.

Tuition Reimbursement

• Tuition Reimbursement towards associate's, bachelor's or master's degrees, available to all full-time employees after one year of employment. (exclusions apply)

To learn more details, visit our benefits page.