Meter Reader

Salary: $16.55 - $21.51 Hourly Description JOB SUMMARY The Meter Reader is responsible for accurate reading and re-reading of water meters and assisting with the provision of customer service. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS • Reads water utility meters for commercial and residential customers; • Maintains records on standard forms to ensure proper billing; • Completes work orders to turn on and turn off water service; • Checks for dysfunctional meters and reports any defects to supervisor; • Runs re-checks on meters in question; • Performs final reading for customers requesting disconnection; turns water services on for new customers; • Disconnects water services to delinquent customers; • Removes dysfunctional meters and installs new meters as necessary; and • Performs other related duties as assigned. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • Knowledge of water meter functions and billing methods; • Knowledge of safety regulations; • Knowledge of the City water systems; • Knowledge of the location of City streets and meters; • Skill in operating a hand-held meter-reading unit; • Skill in oral and written communication; • Skill in responding to the public; • Ability to observe meter activity accurately and record readings legibly; and • Ability to make mathematical computations rapidly and accurately. PHYSICAL DEMANDS The work is light and requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required: • Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. • Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. • Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet. • Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine. • Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips. • Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling. • Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. • Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand. • Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound. • Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees. • Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles. • Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes. • Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion. • Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward. • Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. • Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and fingers. • Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely. • Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time. • Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. • Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. • Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity such as color differentiation, depth perception, and adequate field vision. • Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another. WORK ENVIRONMENT The work is performed outdoors and in an office. The employee is exposed to noise, dust, dirt, machinery with moving parts and occasional inclement weather. Qualifications Education and Experience: High School Diploma or GED and one (1) year of related work experience. Special Qualifications: Possession of a valid State of Georgia Driver’s License; CDL preferred.