Heavy Duty Mechanic/Automotive Machinist (7323) – Water Supply & Treatment Division – San Francisco Public Utilities Commission – (Exempt)

Career Opportunity

Heavy Duty Mechanic/Automotive Machinist (7323) – Water Supply & Treatment Division – San Francisco Public Utilities Commission – (Exempt)

Recruitment: RTF0159815-01158667

Published: September 15, 2025

Contact:

Anna Owens - AOwens@sfwater.org

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Department: Public Utilities Commission
Job class: 7323-Heavy Duty Mechanic/Automotive Machinist
Salary range: $128,232.00 - $128,232.00
Role type: Temporary Exempt What does this mean?
Hours: Full-time

About:

Application Opening: September 15, 2025
Application Filing Deadline: September 28, 2025
Recruitment ID: RTF0159815 (159817)

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. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

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.gov.

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.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

ABOUT WATER SUPPLY AND TREATMENT DIVISION

One of the three largest operating divisions in the Water Enterprise serving 2.7 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the Bay Area, the Water Supply and Treatment Division manages a complex water supply and treatment system stretching from the Tesla Treatment Facility in San Joaquin County to San Francisco, featuring a series of reservoirs, tunnels, pipelines, and treatment facilities. The division has a staff of 240 employees and is managed by a team headquartered in Millbrae consisting of a division manager and 5 section managers overseeing its business operations, distribution, engineering, maintenance, and system operations sections.

Role description

Project: Basic Inspection of Terminals (BIT) and Smog Project

Location: Millbrae Yard, 1000 El Camino Real, Millbrae, CA

Hours: Monday – Friday, 7:00 am – 3:30 pm

Under general supervision, performs skilled machinist work in the maintenance, repair and overhaul of heavy-duty and off-road vehicles and power-driven equipment, such as diesel trucks and buses, firefighting vehicles, compressors, generators, graders, backhoes, tractors, small engines (lawn mowers, etc.) and electric motors (on carts, etc.) and performs related duties as required.

Essential Functions:

1. Maintains, repairs, overhauls, and services heavy-duty and off-road vehicles and power-driven equipment using hand tools, power tools and machine tools such as lathes, drill presses, grinders, boring bars, valves refining tools and other machine tools.

2. Designs, fabricates and welds parts.

3. Maintains records of equipment mileage, service/repair logs, materials and parts logs, and equipment and parts orders.

4. Responds to incoming emergency calls and may go to the site of the breakdown; may tow vehicles.

5. Inspects, tests, and reviews vehicles and equipment as part of the preventive maintenance program.

6. Diagnoses malfunctions using test equipment, manufacturers specifications and repair manuals, and observation both in the shop and in the field in order to determine needed repairs.

7. Orders supplies, parts and materials necessary for the maintenance, repair and servicing of equipment and vehicles.

8. Drives city vehicles and operates equipment to diagnose malfunctions and to conduct final inspection of work completed.

9. Performs other related duties as assigned to Class 7323.

Nature of the work: Involves some physical effort and considerable dexterity in the use of the fingers, limbs and body; continuous exposure to physical and working conditions where minor injuries may occur. May be required to work nights, weekends and/or holidays.

How to qualify

Minimum Qualifications: Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

Education: High school diploma or equivalent (GED or High School Proficiency Examination),

AND

Experience: A combination of journey-level experience and/or apprenticeship training as an automotive machinist or heavy-duty mechanic totaling six (6) years in which the major duties were disassembling, repairing, overhauling and installing mechanical, electrical and hydraulic assemblies in heavy duty and off-road vehicles and power-driven equipment. To be considered qualifying, this experience must include the use of machine tools such as valve re-facers, hydraulic and drill presses, lathes and grinders,

AND

License and Certification: Possession of at least a Class C (or III) driver license at the time of application; and the candidate must be able to obtain a Class A (or I) driver license with Medical Certificate within twelve (12) months of the time of appointment. Failure to maintain the required license may be cause for termination.

Experience Substitution: Completion of a CA Division of Apprenticeship Standards recognized Automotive Machinist apprenticeship program as evidenced by issuance of a Certificate of Completion of the apprenticeship program under the appropriate authority will substitute for the six (6) years combined work experience.

Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring:

Possession of a valid Class A driver’s license
Experience working with heavy duty diesel equipment
Experience using computer software such as Maximo
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 Automotive Machinists, Local 1414, 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.

What else should I know?

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/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

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).

Job Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the job analyst, Anna Owens at aowens@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.