Swimming Pool Service Technician

Position Summary

This position is responsible for accessing, diagnosing and performing the necessary repairs to a clients pool in the least time consuming yet professional way.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Plumb new equipment or entire pool equipment pads in a neat, professional manor.
• Pressure test, locate and repair any leaks (underground and above)
• Summerize and winterize pools
• Fix or install lights
• Install or repair AOP, salt systems and automation system
• Start up new or renovated pools and balance.
• Test, diagnosis water chemistry issues and treat or balance.
• Install new winter safety covers
• Locate leaks and patch liners.
• Adjust auto fillers
• Perform sand changes in filters
• Perform weekly maintenance on pools to include, vacuum, test balance chemistry, skim, brush, clean filter, and report issues (when needed).
• Replace skimmer and pump basket when broken.
• Bring cartridges back to the shop for cleaning and label with the clients’ last name.
• Stock truck neatly using milk crates and secure loads on truck.
• Diagnosis and repair heaters.
• Maintain cleanliness of trucks, inside and out including wash and vacuum.
• Report any issues with trucks or accidents and obey all local traffic laws.
• Greet and speak with clients, or others, in a professional manner.
• Complete daily workorders for each job including notes, chemistry, photos, etc.
• Report any chemicals or parts taken each time to Inventory Control Administrator.
• Clean stock area and stock store shelves, when needed.
• Assist store clients with loading and unloading their purchases.
• Clean bathrooms, as needed.
• Ensure all portable vacuums are clean and charged upon use.
• Maintain personal vacuum equipment, including vacuum heads.
• Assist Construction Department, as needed.
• Assist in unloading delivered items.
• Assist in putting stock away with Inventory Control Administrator.
• Provide gas receipts or store receipts to Accounts Payable.
• Complete any additional tasks as assigned.
• High school diploma, or equivalent, required. Experience is necessary and should hold a SP2 CT Trade License or PHTA Certifications.
• Must hold a valid driver’s license.
• Ability to read and interpret documents including safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Effectively able to communicate with groups of customers or employees.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions using written, oral, or diagram forms. Able to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Comfortable using computer programs, including service software for entering work orders and running reports.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

This position will regularly use various equipment and machinery, including portable vacuum systems, submergible pumps, trash pumps, leak detection equipment, hammer drills, and vacuum blowers. This position will regularly require standing, walking, use and reach of hands and arms, and stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling. This position will frequently require talking and hearing. This position will occasionally require sitting, climbing, or balancing, and tasting or smelling. This position will frequently require the ability to lift and/or move up to 100lbs. This position will require close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus, and the ability to see color. This position will regularly be working in various conditions including wet or humid non-weather-related conditions, working near moving mechanical parts, near fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions, and with a risk of electrical shock. This position is occasionally exposed to animal bites, is regularly exposed to flea, tick, or other insect bites, and is frequently exposed to poison ivy or poison sumac. The noise level for this position is moderate.