Job Description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Utility Person to join our team and help deliver essential services to the communities we serve. This position is a union position with Pennsylvania American Water and offers growth potential.

Responsibilities

  • Inspects, operates, maintains, troubleshoots, installs and repairs water distribution including water mains, valves, hydrants, service lines, and pumping facilities.
  • Responds to customer service inquiries including service disruptions, service line problems and grinder pump malfunctions.
  • Investigates complaints and determines corrective action per company procedure.
  • Performs new service activity including tap installation and records keeping.
  • Monitors water distribution and Scada as needed.
  • Completes all necessary forms, sketches, and field notes and uses maps and records.
  • Maintains all necessary records and tools.
  • Performs maintenance and light construction duties including repairs and/or improvements to physical shop, custodial duties, and related building and grounds activities.
  • Performs facility mark-out pursuant to Pennsylvania One-Call.
  • Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

  • GED/High School graduate or state recognized education equivalency certificate.
  • PA DOT Certification required.
  • Valid PA Driver's license.
  • Mechanical ability sufficient to understand the operation of pumps, valves, motors and other mechanical equipment related to operations and maintenance.
  • Working knowledge of distribution/collection systems.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: M-F 7:30am-4:00pm.
  • Position is subject to 24 hour call-out and overtime.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Norristown, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $25–$35/hr middle band drawn from 123 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 61% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Norristown, PA

Norristown, PA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 273 other active welding openings from 174 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Hanwha Philly Shipyard (8), TradeWorx (7), and JB Poindexter Company (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $34/hr, York at $27/hr, and New Kensington at $22/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Norristown, PA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. $31.83/hour Utility Person figures were last recalculated when this page was built.