Stationary Engineer, Water Treatment Plant - San Francisco Water Division (CDD) - SFPUC (7341)

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

• Application Opening : 10 / 27 / 2025
• Application Filing Deadline :   11 / 9 / 2025
• Annual Salary : $136,474
• Recruitment ID : TEX-7341-133674 /  REF57485X

APPOINTMENT TYPE :   Temporary Exempt : This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer.

This as-needed 7341 Stationary Engineer is a temporary appointment not to exceed the equivalent of half-time [1040 hours] during any fiscal year. Incumbent should be available to cover any full shift or partial shift on an as-needed basis. Incumbent may be called on short notice to work weekends, holidays, day, swing, and grave shifts.

WHO ARE WE?

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)

Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission :  To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision :  We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at  https : / / www.sfpuc.org / .

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at  https : / / www.sfpuc.org / about -us / careers-sfpuc

Job Description

Under general supervision and during a shift, the Stationary Engineer, Water Treatment Plant, operates, maintains, and repairs a wide variety of complex machinery and equipment pumping station or related facility. Work may include physical effort in climbing ladders (up to 16 ft.) to inspect projects, confined space entry including tight crawl spaces, working in remote areas, and using a respirator. The work may be in an industrial, physically restrictive, and hazardous environment. The Stationary Engineer must be able : to audit alarm screens; to identify levels of audible alarms; and be able to identify leaks by smell.

DEFINITION :

Under general supervision and during a shift, operates, maintains, and repairs a wide variety of complex machinery and equipment in a pumping station or related facility. Class 7341 is the journey level class within the Stationary Engineer, Water Treatment Plant series.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES :

Qualifications

Education :

License and Certification :

Substitution :

Any of the following may substitute for the required education :

Note :

Some physical effort and use of all senses is required in the operation, repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment including kneeling, crouching, stooping, squatting crawling, climbing, working in various lift equipment and use of fixed and portable ladders up to 75 feet, walking long distances and lifting up to 50 pounds in the performance of important and essential duties. This also includes exposure to working conditions where the performance of duties requires working in confined spaces, damp environments, outdoors in inclement weather, and with chemicals.

Verification of Education and Experience :

Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad. Please review our articles on Employment Application and Minimum Qualifications and Verification of Experience and / or Education for considerations taken when reviewing applications.

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process.

Note : Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

DRUG TESTING REQUIREMENT :  Applicants for positions in this classification who are not currently employed by the City and County of San Francisco in a safety-sensitive position represented by Local 39 are required to pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing. All employees in this classification may also be subject to drug and alcohol testing upon reasonable suspicion or after a work-related accident. Applicants with a positive result from a pre-employment drug test will be restricted from hire in safety-sensitive positions for six-months after the date of the positive test.

Upon appointment to Class 7341, employees may be required to take a state mandated respirator and self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) medical examination, (renewed annually) and be clean shaven prior to starting each shift for respirator and SCBA use. Employees may be required to pass CPR training annually and first aid training tri-annually.

Additional Information

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco :

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from  notification@careers.sf.gov  that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records.  Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

How To Apply :

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit  https : / / careers.smartrecruiters.com / CityAndCountyOf SanFrancisco1 /  and begin the application process.

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and updated. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from  notification@careers.sf.gov  that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records.  Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Analyst Information :   If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the Human Resources Analyst, Crystal Liu at  CLiu@sfwater.org.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV / AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.