We are seeking a skilled Omc Laborer to join our team at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. As an Omc Laborer, you will perform routine and skilled manual tasks as assigned, assisting operations, maintenance, and skilled trades staff as required.

• Perform tasks requiring specialized skill in the maintenance and operation of equipment such as pickup trucks, pump trucks, tractors, mowers, pumps, generators, and pneumatic tools.
• Assist skilled tradesmen in construction, maintenance, and repair work, including minor adjustments and repair of equipment.
• Perform manual tasks in connection with valve operations, pipeline construction, and maintenance, such as cleaning culverts and drains, digging ditches, spreading asphalt, caulking lead joints, and assisting in valve installations, repair of valves, and pipeline under pressure.
• Perform a variety of manual tasks in connection with building and grounds maintenance work, such as grass cutting, shoveling snow, repair of fences, disposing of trash, and maintaining general building cleanliness.
• Assist personnel of a higher grade in all aspects of plant maintenance and repairs, including diesel engine overhaul, positive displacement pump overhaul and repair, centrifugal pump overhaul and repair, re-chaining of grit channels and sedimentation tanks, and building concrete structures.
• Assist in the repair of electrical and mechanical equipment.
• Assist in upkeep and cleaning of MWRA equipment, structures, and facilities, such as screen chambers, tidegates, and regular chambers.
• Assist in the handling and storage of stock, loads, unloads, moves, and transports material, equipment, freight, and supplies.

• A high school diploma or GED, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Working knowledge of the use of common tools, construction, and sewer maintenance equipment, and of one or more of the mechanical or building trades.
• Ability to operate various types of vehicles and equipment, including light automotive trucks and equipment, ten-wheel dump trucks, snow plows, pickup trucks, tractors, and power-driven grounds maintenance equipment.
• Ability to perform manual labor of semi-skilled nature, use/make minor repairs to small tools and simple mechanical equipment.
• Basic knowledge of the operation and maintenance of facilities.
• Ability to perform heavy manual labor for extended periods of time, under varying climatic conditions.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.

• Must possess a current valid Class B Massachusetts Commercial Drivers License.
• Will be subject to the MWRA Controlled Substance and Alcohol Testing Policy and the random drug-testing program.