Operator in Training

About This Role

Operate and maintain water/wastewater treatment equipment to purify water, ensuring compliance with permit and operational requirements. This role also involves monitoring controls, performing routine maintenance, and conducting field tests.

Responsibilities

• Tend automatic and semi-automatic machines and related equipment (pumps, engines, generators, valves, gates, mixers, conveyors, blowers, chemical feed and odor control and vacuum filters) used to decontaminate wastewater
• Monitor control panels and adjust valves and gates manually or by remote control to regulate flow
• Monitor flow meters, gauges, flow ratios, pressures and related controls through instrument panels, computer terminals and programmable logic control units
• Monitor and record operating conditions observations and data in area shift log
• Ensure conformance to process specifications, diagnose basic operational problems, and take corrective action per procedure
• Perform routine and preventative maintenance and maintenance related items
• Perform manual labor including filling and emptying of machine bins and cleaning equipment, facilities and grounds
• Operate vehicles for plant operational purposes
• Practice good housekeeping in assigned area and properly dispose of waste according to safety and environmental policies
• Perform field tests (chemical, physical and biological) to pace chemical dosages for process and odor control units or alter unit processes
• Sample wastewater, sludge and gases according to schedule
• Prepare chemical solutions and service automatic samplers
• Monitor process chemical supplies and recommend reorder
• Perform routine lab tests
• Perform routine instrument calibration for portable meters

Requirements

• Ability to read, write and comprehend English (operational, process, safety and quality instructions)
• Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations
• Ability to learn and independently operate assigned machines and equipment meeting or exceeding processing and quality targets
• Ability to learn and independently operate equipment such as pumps, engines, centrifuge, generators, valves, gates, mixers, conveyors, blowers, dryers, chemical feed, odor control, disinfection equipment, sludge processing filters, belt presses and measuring/control devices, testing equipment and material handling equipment
• Working ability to use computer programs for process control
• Ability to work in a team environment and willingness to assume additional or new responsibilities readily
• Ability to serve rotational 24-hour emergency on-call if required by site

Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED
• Six months to two years experience in a related position and environment with knowledge of the methods, techniques, and practices of water/wastewater treatment.

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits