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Department: Public Works

Division: Wastewater Treatment Plant

Grade: 15

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Bargaining Unit: Austin Employees Association

Reports To: WWTP Maintenance Supervisor and WWTP Superintendent

Date: July 2025

General Purpose

Under general supervision, this position is responsible for planning, scheduling, and

coordinating maintenance activities through the effective use of a Computerized Maintenance

Management System (CMMS).

It is the positions responsibility to improve maintenance workforce productivity, minimize

downtime, and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning

and coordination of parts, materials, and equipment access, while maintaining compliance with

all regulatory permits. This position ensures timely, cost-effective maintenance of wastewater

equipment and systems, prioritizing safety, regulatory compliance, and performance metrics.

This position is also responsible for developing proactive preventive maintenance plans and

tracking lifecycle costs to guide decisions on equipment repair versus replacement.

Complexity

The overall complexity of this position is moderately high. While performing the normal duties of

this job, processes, procedures, or software vary from one assignment to the next.

Assignments are still related in function and objective.

Responsibility

Supervision

General supervision is provided while performing the normal duties of this job.

This position exhibits no formal supervisory responsibilities but may coordinate work with other

individuals as a team member.

Impact

While performing the normal duties of this job, this position’s work product or services affect the

accuracy, reliability, or acceptability of further processes or services.

Job Duties or Essential Functions

The essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to the following:• Maintains and continuously improves the preventive maintenance schedule using CMMS

software, ensuring the system evolves with equipment needs, industry standards, and

operational priorities.

• Develops, records, and optimizes statistical data related to the equipment maintenance and

work order information using a computer maintenance management system.

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive maintenance schedule based on preventive,

predictive, and corrective maintenance needs.

• Develops preventive maintenance schedules for WWTP equipment, such as, pumps, valves,

gauges, filters, and other controls and equipment.

• Maintenance oversite to ensure proper completion of equipment repairs, preventive

maintenance procedures and records.

• Monitors the performance of the treatment plant’s equipment, including gauges, charts, and

pump stations.

• Assists the WWTP Maintenance Supervisor with developing daily work schedules for

preventive maintenance and equipment repairs.

• Maintains and operates equipment and adjusts as needed to meet report standards.

• Reports maintenance and operational issues and safety concerns and develops solutions to

correct the issues

• Assists with training for new and existing staff on proper maintenance procedures for

consistent high-quality standards.

• Monitor and manage parts inventory in the CMMS to ensure necessary parts and supplies

are available for scheduled work.

• Track and record asset performance and maintenance costs to support long-term planning

and budget management.

• Analyze maintenance trends and performance metrics, including equipment downtime,

maintenance response times, and repair frequency.

• Utilize CMMS data to recommend enhancements to preventive maintenance schedules and

identify critical equipment requiring additional attention.

• Collaborate with the maintenance and operations staff to identify and implement

maintenance strategies that improve equipment reliability and lifespan.

• Support safety and compliance initiatives by maintaining records of regulatory inspections,

audits, and corrective actions.

• Ensure all maintenance activities are documented in accordance with organizational and

regulatory requirements.

• Maintain equipment manuals, safety procedures, and compliance documentation within the

CMMS system.

• Exercises purchasing knowledge to find obsolete parts; finds new vendors and establishes

reliable contacts for industry, ensuring support of critical equipment and process.

• Performs warehouse identification of spare parts; oversees stocking notifications matching

equipment/parts descriptions in system; checks levels, criticality, and pricing.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

This position may encounter not public data in the course of these duties. Any access to not

public data should be strictly limited to accessing the data that are necessary to perform the

duties. While data are being accessed, this position should take reasonable measures to ensure

the not public data are not accessed by individuals without a work reason. Once the work

reason to access the data is reasonably finished, this position must properly store the not public

data.

Minimum Qualifications

To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential

function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the formal education,

experience and training required.

Education

Associate’s degree or equivalent in Maintenance Management, Industrial Technology,

Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.

Experience

Minimum 3 years in maintenance planning, preferably within a wastewater treatment or

industrial environment.

Trainings, Certificates, and Licenses

• Microsoft Office Suite

• Must possess a valid State driver’s license

Desired Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the formal education, experience and

training preferred in order to exceptionally perform all of the functions of this position.

Education

Associate’s degree or equivalent in Maintenance Management, Industrial Technology,

Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.

Experience

Minimum 5 years in maintenance planning, preferably within a wastewater treatment or

industrial environment.

Trainings, Certificates, and Licenses

• Microsoft Office Suite

• CMMS Software

• WWTP Mechanical, Electrical, and Instrumentation Systems

• Must possess a valid State driver’s license

Required Physical Abilities and Work Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, this position may occasionally kneel, crouch, squat,

reach above shoulder level, sit, carry up to 50 lbs., feel, and talk; frequently climb, balance,

bend/stoop, stand, walk, push/pull and lift up to 50 lbs., and finger/enter data/keystroke; and

continuously hear and smell.

While performing the duties of this job, this position will use close, far, depth perception, visual

acuteness, color and peripheral vision.

While performing the duties of this job, this position will use their right and left hand for firm

handling or grasping and fine handling or manipulation.

While performing the duties of this job, this position will use their right foot and left for repetitive

movements.

Surroundings

While performing the duties of this job, this position will experience exposure to inside and

outside environmental conditions, noise, dust, fumes, gases, chemicals, or oils requiring special

mitigating precautions or protective gear, working in narrow aisles or passageways, work

around moving mechanical parts, extreme hot and cold and infectious diseases.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work

being performed by individuals employed in this job. They are not intended to be an

exhaustive list of all duties and qualifications required of personnel in this job. The

employer may and reserves its right to change the job description and establish, modify

or eliminate job duties and responsibilities and jobs at its discretion with or without

notice.

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