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Do you want to apply your expertise for a cause you can feel good about? Do you want to work for an organization that wants you to grow with it and offers tuition reimbursement, certification training, and a chance to learn about multiple industries? Come work for the Town of Leesburg, hometown of the 21st century! Located 35 miles west of the nation's capital in the heart of DC's Wine Country, you'll enjoy a vibrant and authentic community with "big city" amenities. The Town of Leesburg strongly encourages innovation, promotes career development, and offers excellent benefits to employees. Benefits include membership to the Town's full-service recreation center, enrollment into the Virginia Retirement System, excellent healthcare insurance, and other fringe benefits.

For a more detailed job description, please visit the Town's*Job Descriptionpage.*

The Town's Utility Department is a hard working team of friendly professionals who strive together to exceed in excellence. Come and join our team!

*Who We're Looking For* If you identify with the following descriptions, then you may be perfect for the Town of Leesburg:

• Creative problem solver
• Proactive self-starter
• Life-long learner
• Strong team player
• Passionate about excellent customer service
• Positive, can-do attitude
• Effective communicator
• Desire to impart knowledge to others
• "Early adopter" of new technologies

*What Youll Be Doing* This position involves advanced, skilled industrial mechanical work performing and overseeing the maintenance and repair of all electrical, mechanical, and structural equipment relative to the operation of the Towns Water Filtration Facility and Water Pollution Control Facility and all associated facilities within the Towns Department of Utilities. Work involves responsibility for performing and leading maintenance workers in a variety of maintenance and repair tasks. Employees are subject to inside and outside environmental conditions, extreme cold and heat, noise, vibration and working in hazardous conditions, such as confined space and high voltage environments, and working in all types of weather conditions.

Required Qualifications

• HS/GED.
• Minimum of six (6) years of responsible experience in industrial electrical, industrial mechanical, facility maintenance and/or repair work; including a minimum of two (2) years of progressive experience as a crew leader or equivalent.
• Possession of a valid drivers license and a safe driving record.
• Commercial Drivers License Class B or ability to obtain within one (1) year of employment.
• Confined Space, Forklift, CPR/AED and First Aid Certifications or ability to obtain within one (1) year of employment.
• Extensive knowledge of pumps and motors or water and wastewater treatment equipment.
• Knowledge in MS Suite applications and computer program applications appropriate to the position.
• Knowledge of OSHA and other workplace safety programs.
• Must be able to respond to assist with emergency repairs on an on-call basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associates degree, college course or completion of an electrical, mechanical, SCADA control systems or other associated trade school.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience maintaining a water treatment or wastewater treatment plant.
• Commercial Drivers License Class A or B
• Supervisory experience in a similar environment.
• Knowledge of equipment maintenance procedures and tracking.
• Process control knowledge of water/sewer pumping operations.
• Mastery certification in an industrial trade.
• OSHA 30
• Bilingual in English/Spanish.

Compensation and Benefits The Town of Leesburg is committed to providing competitive compensation and benefits, and opportunities to grow one's career, all while making a significant impact on the operations and quality of life in a thriving community. The T wn offers competitive compensation, affordable health insurance coverage, participation in the Virginia Retirement System, an optional 457(b) retirement plan with a Town matching contribution, flexible spending accounts, voluntary benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), membership to the Town's full-service recreation center, an optional payroll Roth IRA, and generous paid time off. For more information on the Town's robust benefits package, please visit the Town's*Employee Benefits page.*

EOE/ADA.