Job Summary

Looking for a hands-on job that keeps your city flowing? Fort Worth Water is hiring Utility Line Technicians – Water Distribution Systems to help maintain and repair critical infrastructure beneath our streets.

You’ll operate advanced inspection tools, perform smoke testing, monitor sewer flow, and respond to service calls that keep Fort Worth’s wastewater collection system working safely and efficiently. This role is outdoors, physical, and essential—and it comes with opportunities to grow your skills and build a long-term career in public service.

If you’ve worked in utilities, field operations, or wastewater before—or want to learn from the ground up—this is your chance to join a dependable team doing important work that benefits the entire community.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED certification
• Two (2) years of water/sewer utilities experience
• Possess a valid driver's license and acceptable driving record
• Ability to obtain a TCEQ Water Distribution D license is required within twelve months of hire. To obtain this license, you must be able to pass a written test and criminal background check
• Must be able to pass a physical and drug screen testing

Preferred Qualifications

• At least one year of previous supervisory experience
• Knowledge of work order management software
• Possess a TCEQ Water Distribution C license or higher
• Previous experience working with a large water utility
• Possess a Class A CDL
• PACP, LACP, and MACP certified

Utility Line Technician Responsibilities

As a Utility Line Technician, you’ll be part of a team dedicated to maintaining and repairing our city’s vital water and sewer systems. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining and Repairing Water and Sewer Systems: You’ll be on the front lines ensuring our water and sewer systems are running smoothly, conducting everything from routine maintenance to more complex repairs
• CCTV Video Assessments: Using state-of-the-art technology, you’ll conduct detailed inspections of the wastewater collection system to identify issues and keep everything flowing properly
• Smoke Testing & Inspections: Play a key role in identifying system issues through smoke testing and manhole inspections—critical tasks that help prevent future problems and keep our systems working efficiently
• Flow Monitoring & Equipment Maintenance: Install, monitor, and maintain flow monitoring equipment, providing essential data to help us improve our systems and track performance
• Customer Support & Troubleshooting: You’ll be the go-to person for solving problems and answering questions from residents, contractors, engineers, and other stakeholders
• Hands-on, Physical Work: This job involves manual labor—whether it’s installing new systems, repairing pipes, or maintaining infrastructure, you’ll be doing meaningful work that directly impacts the community
• Reporting & Documentation: Stay on top of important paperwork by completing city-specific forms, surveys, and reports, ensuring we maintain the highest standards of operation

Working Conditions and Physical Demand

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing, balancing, pushing, pulling and lifting; depending on assignment. Incumbents may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, odors, dusts, poor ventilation, chemicals, oils, extreme temperatures, inadequate lighting, intense noises, gases, vibrations, chemicals, oils and workspace restrictions.

Heavy Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly having to move objects.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.