Water Distribution Supervisor - OC)
Description
Salary: $57,642 - $86,450
Position Grade: 212 M
Department: Water Division
Job Type: Full time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1803
Location: Water Division - St. Louis, MO
This is a supervisory and administrative position, exercising considerable independence in directing the maintenance, repair and installation of water distribution system mains and appurtenances. Water Distribution Supervisors assume a broad range of responsibilities primarily focused on the leadership, training, evaluation and management of four to five-person crews of blue-collar Water Maintenance Technicians. Supervisors must coordinate activities with peers and others within the Distribution Section; others within the Water Division; and with external entities including contractors and city, county and state agencies. Supervisors operate within and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and policies and participate in SOP and policy formulation and revision, and preparation of annual budgets. In their leadership role, Supervisors evaluate individuals’ performance and participate in subordinates’ training and development.
Essential Functions And Responsibilities
Prepare and conduct performance counseling at least once each quarter.
Evaluate performance and prepare service ratings.
Propose disciplinary action for Work Rule, Code of Conduct, and other policy or Standard Operating Procedure infractions.
Prepare and manage assigned Crews’ work schedules, including overtime, on-call, and after-hours Crew assignments.
Oversee work in the field, especially, but not limited to:
Ensure implementation of required safety measures, especially, but not limited to:
Wear of Personal Protective Equipment.
Installation of OSHA-standard excavation shoring.




Establishment of work zone safety and traffic control measures.
Ensure adherence to established standards of quality of work, including, but not limited to:
Saw cutting pavement before excavation.
Finishing of concrete surfaces.
Grounds / pavement restoration.
Work site cleanliness.
Review and approve project records including: Valve sheets, City Works work order data entries, including:
Accurate transcription of hard copy work order data (e.g. labor, materials and equipment expenditure).
Historical comment entries.
Accurate project phase assignment(e.g. Assigned (Ready to Work), Work in Progress, Work Completed - Ready for QA).
Hard copy work order records including labor, materials and equipment utilization data (Note: Hard copy records to be phased out.)
Participate in development and execution of annual budgets for capital equipment requisitions and capital projects.
Vehicles and equipment are: Adequately maintained at the operator level. Clean and serviceable. Fully stocked with standard safety and first aid materials.
Participate in Crew training: Review and approve training schedules. Assist in instruction, as needed.
Review & approve subordinates' Time / payroll. Time off requests.
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess,



conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide first line supervision. Ability to persuade, convince, and train others. Ability to advise and provide interpretation regarding the application of policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as tapping machines, power generators, fire hydrants, motor vehicles and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as status reports, technical operating manuals, materials estimates, plats and blueprints, guidelines and nonroutine correspondence.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate decimals and percentages; performs basic to advanced algebraic, geometric and trigonometric operations.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria

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