Utilities Senior Treatment Technician

Salary: $23.31 - $38.46 Hourly
Location : 3100 Loveland Blvd Port Charlotte FL 33980, FL
Job Type: Full-time
Job Number: 2026-00003
Department: UTILITIES - I & C
Opening Date: 01/06/2026
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Bargaining Unit: IUPAT


How You Can Help Us Make a Difference
Play a vital role in delivering safe, reliable water and wastewater services to our community as a Utilities Senior Treatment Technician. In this hands-on position, you'll inspect, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain critical treatment plant and pump station equipment, ensuring systems run safely and efficiently. You'll monitor performance data, perform preventive and corrective maintenance, respond to emergencies, and support plant upgrades-all while mentoring new team members and maintaining high safety and quality standards. This role is ideal for a skilled technician who takes pride in problem-solving, teamwork, and keeping essential infrastructure operating at its best.

Education & Credentials That Power This Role

Education and Experience:
An equivalent combination of relevant training, education and experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five (5) years of experience in public works construction, maintenance, wastewater collection, water distribution, repair activities.

Licenses and/or Certificates:

• Must maintain a valid Commercial Class "A" driver's license.
• Must maintain Water Distribution Operator Level 3 License or Wastewater Collection Level 3 License.
• Within six (6) months of position assignment:
  • Obtain and maintain Telescopic Boom Crane Certification (21-75 tons) TB21-75.
• Within one (1) year of position assignment:
  • Maintain CCU Confined Space Entry Certification.

Your Purpose & Day-To-Day Journey
In this role, you can expect a dynamic, hands-on work environment that blends technical expertise with responsibility and teamwork. You'll apply your knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems, safety practices, and maintenance procedures to diagnose issues, perform repairs, and keep treatment facilities operating reliably. The position requires sound judgment, strong organizational skills, and the ability to work independently while prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines. You'll interpret drawings and schematics, operate tools and heavy equipment safely, respond professionally to inquiries or concerns, and collaborate with coworkers, contractors, and the public-while remaining flexible to work nights, weekends, holidays, and emergency callouts as needed.

Extra Details You Should Know

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Stooping, crouching, walking, pulling, lifting, grasping, hearing, seeing up close, seeing far away, kneeling, reaching, pushing, talking, standing, finger movement, repetitive motions, depth perception. Frequent lifting of up to 25 pounds; occasional lifting up to 50 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is exposed to outdoor weather conditions or irate customers, extreme noise, odors, heights, and/or dust.

RISK/SAFETY CONDITIONS
The position requires moderate exposure or risk related to physical and/or mental health and safety (e.g., exposure to environmentally hazardous material, heavy equipment, electricity, high system process pressures, assault and battery, communicable disease, etc.).

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.
Charlotte County is an Affirmative Action/ADA/Veterans' Preference and Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, Minorities, and Persons
with Disabilities are Encouraged to Apply.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE/RECOVERY ACTIVITIES:

All County employees are required to work before, during, or after an emergency as needed. This may include temporarily being assigned to work and performing duties outside of the normal scope of their position, location and work schedule to fit the needs of the County and its citizens.

Charlotte County is an Affirmative Action, ADA and Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to applyAs a veterans' preference employer, certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of such service members and veterans, who claim and meet eligibility requirements of veterans' preference, receive preference and priority in employment and are encouraged to apply. In addition, certain servicemembers may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.

All positions with Charlotte County may be subject to drug testing in accordance with the Drug-Free Workplace Program and/or County policy.
Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners offers a comprehensive benefits package to regular full-time employees.