This is not a timed examination. If you request a Reasonable Accommodation, your account will be locked and you will not be able to proceed with the examination until the request is processed.

The information below will help you determine which classification(s) is(are) appropriate for you. Applicants must meet the Minimum Qualifications as stated on this bulletin to compete in this examination.

Open and Open, Non-Promotional Examination(s):

• UTILITY CRAFTSWORKER, WATER RESOURCES - Open

For all Classifications, once you have participated in any of the following examinations, you may not recompete for 6 months:

Exam Code(s):

2919

For UTILITY CRAFTSWORKER, WATER RESOURCES, once you have participated in any of the following examinations, you may not recompete for 6 months:

Exam Code(s):

• EX-02919

Submit an Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) to apply for this examination.

Electronic applications can be submitted through your account at www.CalCareers.ca.gov.

If you require assistance or alternative testing arrangements due to a disability, indicate on your application that you need reasonable accommodation. You will be contacted by a representative of the testing department to make the necessary arrangements. If you have not been contacted by the time you receive notification of testing, please contact the testing department listed in the Contact section of this bulletin.

If you are unable to submit your application or complete the test due to a disability, please contact the testing department listed in the Contact section of this bulletin.

All applicants must meet the education and/or experience requirements as stated on this exam bulletin to be accepted to the examination.

Unless otherwise stated in the Minimum Qualifications, qualifying experience may be combined on a proportionate basis if the requirements stated below include more than one pattern and are distinguished as "Either" 1, "or" 2, "or" 3, etc. For example, applicants possessing qualifying experience amounting to 50% of the required time of Pattern 1 and additional experience amounting to 50% of the required time of Pattern 2 may be accepted to an examination as meeting 100% of the overall experience requirement.

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This examination consists of the following component(s):

A final score of 70% must be attained to be placed on the eligible list.

In addition to evaluating the applicant's relative knowledge, skill and ability as demonstrated by quality and breadth of education/experience, emphasis in each test component will be on measuring competitively, relative to job demands, each applicant's:

A Departmental Open eligible list for the UTILITY CRAFTSWORKER, WATER RESOURCES Classification will be established for:

• Department of Water Resources

The names of successful competitors will be merged onto the eligible list(s) in order of final score regardless of test date. Eligibility expires 12 months after it is established. Applicants must then retake the examination to reestablish eligibility.

Veterans' Preference will be granted for this examination. Veterans' Preference is an assistance program for veterans, veteran widows and widowers, and spouses of 100% disabled veterans who seek employment with the state. Veterans' Preference is also extended to currently serving military members nearing their retirement or separation date.

You are not eligible for Veteran's Preference if you are:

• A veteran who has been dishonorably discharged or released.
• A veteran, widow or widower of a veteran, or spouse of a 100 percent disabled veteran who currently has permanent civil service status. (Permanent civil service status is the status of an employee who is lawfully retained in his/her position after completion of the applicable probationary period. This does not include limited term).

Veterans' Preference is codified in Government Code Sections 18973 – 18979.

Veteran status is verified by the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR). Directions to apply for Veterans' Preference are on the Veterans' Preference Application (Std. Form 1093), which is available at www.CalCareers.ca.gov, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Career Credits are not granted for examination(s) administered on an Open basis or a Promotional basis.

1. Performing sandblasting and/or protective coating to protect equipment and components of projects.
2. Performing skilled construction tasks (e.g., carpentry, electrical, welding, plumbing, painting, masonry, and concrete placements and finishing) to perform maintenance activities using prints and drawings.
3. Performing construction surveying (e.g., setting grades and/or measuring elevations) to maintain civil structures (e.g., roadways, drainage systems, dams, embankments, levees, concrete pads, and/or foundations).
4. Operating equipment (i.e., medium and heavy) to monitor and maintain structures and installations.
5. Applying pesticides to control undesirable vegetation, rodents, and insects in compliance with Federal, State, and local agency regulations under the supervision of a licensed applicator.
6. Maintaining pesticide application equipment and completing daily use reports to comply with Federal, State, County, and other local agency regulations.
7. Maintaining safety equipment to protect personnel, public, and infrastructure.
8. Performing field inspections of levees, channels, hydro-structures, weirs, and/or pipes to survey visible defects and maintain the integrity of projects.
9. Preparing material and equipment lists to obtain required materials from stores or warehouses to fulfill daily maintenance duties.
10. Inspecting and/or servicing equipment (e.g., bulldozers, cranes, crawlers, front-end loaders, excavators, backhoes, compressors, light and heavy trucks and trailers, graders, work boats, portable pumps, slope mower, aquatic underwater harvester, grout pump, fork lifts, work barges, underwater dredge, jackhammer, and/or compaction equipment) to maintain equipment and structures.
11. Collaborating with crews on a project to engage in maintenance and construction work when required by supervision.
12. Implementing storm water best management practices (e.g., log booms, turbidity curtains, silt fence installations, and/or straw waddles) to protect structures and various areas.
13. Completing lockout tagout process to ensure safety of personnel while performing maintenance activities.
14. Perform construction and/or maintenance while ensuring work is being performed safely and accurately in compliance with standards, policies, and/or regulations.
15. Ability to perform skilled work relating to flood control, maintenance, and/or repair of facilities (e.g., erosion control, rodent control, and ensuring levee integrity).
16. Ability to interpret work plans, drawings, and/or specifications.
17. Ability to perform machine shop work (e.g., grinding and drilling of metal, pipe fitting, arc, mig, tig, and gas welding, soldering, brazing, metal fabrication, precision drilling) to maintain the integrity of projects.
18. Knowledge of tools (e.g., welding, protective coating, painting, carpentry, plumbing, pipe fitting, rigging, sandblasting, masonry, concrete, cathodic protection, and electrical) to install, operate, and/or maintain civil structures and systems.
19. Knowledge of industry safety standards, rules, and/or policies regarding civil structures and related utility equipment.
20. Knowledge of Federal, State, and local regulations to apply within projects and skilled work.
21. Knowledge of erosion repair to identify various problems associated with levee monitoring and maintenance.

• Department of Water Resources

Technical questions regarding this examination should be directed to:

Administrative questions regarding this examination should be directed to:

California Relay Service: 1-800-735-2929 (TTY), 1-800-735-2922 (Voice). TTY is a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf, and is reachable only from phones equipped with a TTY Device.

Examination and/or Employment Application (STD 678) forms are available at the California Department of Human Resources, local offices of the Employment Development Department, and through your CalCareer Account (www.CalCareers.ca.gov).

If you meet the requirements stated on this examination bulletin, you may take this examination, which is competitive. Possession of the entrance requirements does not assure a place on the eligible list. Your performance in the examination described in this bulletin will be rated against a predetermined job-related rating, and all applicants who pass will be ranked according to their scores.

Department of Water Resources reserves the right to revise the examination plan to better meet the needs of the service, if the circumstances under which this examination was planned change. Such revision will be in accordance with civil service laws and rules and all applicants will be notified.

General Qualifications: Applicants must possess essential personal qualifications including integrity, initiative, dependability, good judgment, the ability to work cooperatively with others, and a state of health consistent with the ability to perform the assigned duties of the class. A medical examination may be required. In open examinations, investigation may be made of employment records and personal history and fingerprinting may be required.

Eligible Lists: Eligible lists established by competitive examination, regardless of date, must be used in the following order: 1) sub-divisional promotional, 2) departmental promotional, 3) multi-departmental promotional, 4) service-wide promotional, 5) departmental open, 6) open. When there are two lists of the same kind, the older must be used first. Eligible lists will expire in one to four years unless otherwise stated on the bulletin.

High School Equivalence: Equivalence to completion of the 12th grade may be demonstrated in any one of the following ways: 1) passing the General Education Development (GED) Test; 2) completion of 12 semester units of college-level work; 3) certification from the State Department of Education, a local school board, or high school authorities that the competitor is considered to have education equivalent to graduation from high school; or 4) for clerical and accounting classes, substitution of business college work in place of high school on a year-for-year basis.

Accepted applicants must provide proof of identification at each in-person test session. Acceptable identification consists of a photo identification card or two forms of signed identification.