Utility Maintainer I - (Hartford, CT)

The purpose of this classification is to provide responsible utility maintenance and laboring work which may involve providing assistance operating sewer cleaning trucks and operating sewer cleaning equipment, repairing and installing pipelines using power equipment and tools, servicing and repairing hydrants and related assemblies or servicing and maintaining and repairing gates and related assemblies.Work involves responsibility for safe operation of utility maintenance equipment. Duties may include assisting in operation of rod, jet and camel trucks and cleaning and maintaining sewer lines and related facilities, the operation of gate trucks and various pneumatic excavation tools and pipe cutting equipment. This position also has the responsibility for making routine equipment operating decisions in accordance with established procedures.