Water and Sewer Meter Repair Supervisor

Work in this class involves responsibility for supervising a group of skilled and semi-skilled workers engaged in the installation, repair, location, testing, and maintenance of water distribution lines and services, valves, fire hydrants, connections, and disconnections of service lines, water meters and boxes, and testing of large (turbine) meters. Oversight of the backflow prevention program, including enforcement of the County code, requiring a thorough knowledge of the code and of industry standards and best practices. Assignments are usually received from a technical superior in the form of general oral instructions or designs and specifications for new installations. Difficult maintenance or construction assignments are subject to frequent inspection while work is in process, but the employee is allowed considerable latitude in carrying out normal work assignments.