Storm Water Technician

Maintain, update, and enforce the City's Erosion Control and Stormwater Maintenance Programs and related ordinances. Perform and or coordinate, then report all work required for the City's MS4 permit.

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am-4:30pm
Department: Public Works
Status: Nonexempt
Salary: $61,862.60 - $86,749.59 Annually
Initial interviews: TBD for those selected to move forward in the process
Tentative start date: TBD

Scope of Work
Maintain, update, and enforce the City's Erosion Control and Stormwater Maintenance Programs and related ordinances. Perform and or coordinate, then report all work required for the City's MS4 permit.

Supervision
Received: Engineer III
Exercised: None

Essential Job Functions
The job functions listed herein are neither exclusive nor exhaustive but are intended to be illustrative of the types of tasks the employee will most likely be expected to perform on a regular basis. The employee maybe asked to perform different or additional tasks than the ones listed here, as the needs of the employer and/or the requirements of the position change.

• Conduct inspections of project sites to determine compliance with Chapter 32 and oversee tasks and duties required to ensure the City's compliance with WI State statutes and NR216 of the administration code.
• Perform construction inspections on commercial projects to ensure all erosion and sediment control requirements are installed properly or require other means of site verification. Counsel private developers, engineering consultants, contractors, and the general public on erosion control permitting.
• Process permit applications in accordance with Chapter 32 for private development and City projects.
• Report deficient items, monitor repairs, enforce compliance of the City's stormwater ordinance.
• Maintain inventory of all municipal and private stormwater assets and agreements
• Inspect all municipal and private stormwater assets.
• Determine stormwater work to be performed, then coordinate, monitor, enforce, and report progress. Issues "Notice of Violation" and "Stop Work Orders" to builders on job sites where failures to comply with regulations occur.
• Coordinate completion of work and compile data for submittal of the City's annual MS4 report.
• Perform all illicit discharge testing, analysis, and reporting according to permit requirements.
• Update GIS to include all new stormwater assets that are signed into new agreements.
• Inspect municipal construction projects and installation of stormwater assets.
• Modify documents for SW, EC, and IDR reports, etc. and update the City's website.
• Serves on call approximately 7 days/month to field locate Digger's Hotline emergency requests.
• Investigate and respond to complaints from the public in VueWorks.
• Maintains and is responsible for assigned equipment and vehicles.
• Assists with snow on the sidewalk and right of way obstruction complaint enforcement.
• Assists with groundwater testing and landfill maintenance and reporting, including confined space entries.
• Assists with election logistics (hauling machines and materials to polling locations).
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Graduation from high school and at least 2-3 years of specialized or technical training, and at least 6 Years of experience in stormwater design and/or construction; or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the following knowledge, ability and skills:

Knowledge of

• Department rules, regulations, policies and State statutes
• The practices, methods, techniques and procedures of construction and maintenance of storm water facilities
• The use of standard office equipment and specialized equipment used in stormwater testing, measuring, and surveying
• The use of relevant software programs; e.g. AutoCad (Civil 3D), ArcGIS Pro, Word, Excel, and VueWorks

• Prepare and interpret drawings, plans, graphs, charts, maps and specifications
• Understand and follow instructions and adhere to prescribed routines
• Work independently with minimal supervision
• Use and interpret results from engineering field, office, and laboratory test equipment
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with engineers, contractors, supervisors, coworkers and the general public

• The use of field testing, measuring, and surveying equipment
• Managing and updating projects independently

• Work is performed both indoors and outside in the field; hand-eye coordination is necessary to operate computers and various pieces of office equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, prolonged visual concentration and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, talk and hear; use hands and fingers to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to bend, balance, stoop, crouch or kneel.
• The employee may occasionally be exposed to adverse weather and other unpleasant conditions such as heat, cold, wetness and humidity; dim or bright lights, dust, odors, noise, vibrations, heavy machinery and smoke.
• The employee might occasionally be exposed to toxic agents or electrical.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

The City of Waukesha is an Equal Opportunity Employer.