Pretreatment Program Specialist

The Pretreatment Program Specialist serves as the technical and regulatory lead for Alex Renew Pretreatment Program. This position is responsible for planning, administering, and continuously improving these programs to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental regulations. The Specialist oversees industrial user permitting, inspections, compliance monitoring, enforcement, data analysis, and program development to protect the Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF), collection system, biosolids quality, personnel safety, and receiving waters from the impacts of industrial discharges.

This position requires strong regulatory expertise, sound judgment, effective communication, and a commitment to environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, and continuous program improvement. The Pretreatment Program Specialist reports to the Water Quality Manager.

• Manage the Industrial Pretreatment Program in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local requirements, including 40 CFR Part 403, the VPDES permit, and local Sewer Use Ordinance.
• Draft and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) for inspections, sampling, permitting, and enforcement industrial wastewater discharge permits, control mechanisms, special conditions, and compliance schedules.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with industrial users, conduct surveys, maintain accurate inventories and regulatory determinations.
• Conducts scheduled and unscheduled on-site inspections of industrial users to observe operations, characterize processes, waste streams, pollutant sources, and pretreatment system performance and maintains accurate industrial user inventories and inspection records.
• Review all required submittals for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and regulatory adequacy.
• Support development and periodic review of local limits to protect treatment processes, biosolids quality, worker safety, and receiving waters.
• Implement compliance activities related to dental amalgam, slug discharge control, spill prevention, and other best management practice requirements, as applicable.
• Prepare and submit required regulatory reports, annual pretreatment program documentation, and other compliance deliverables within established deadlines.
• Maintain auditable program records, inspection files, enforcement documentation, and monitoring data in accordance with retention requirements and internal policy.
• Reviews proposed industrial developments, process changes, and new discharge requests to determine pretreatment applicability, permitting needs, and potential impacts to the WRRF and collection system.
• Meets with representatives of new industries and commercial businesses to educate them regarding pretreatment requirements.
• Monitors regulatory changes, guidance, and enforcement trends and advises management on impacts, implementation strategies, and program updates needed to maintain compliance.
• Maintains effective working relationships with industrial users, operations, laboratory, engineering, regulatory agencies and other stakeholders to support program effectiveness.

• Manage the Industrial Stormwater Program in compliance with applicable federal, state, local requirements and best management practices, internal procedures, and program goals.
• Update and implement Stormwater Program SOPs
• Conduct quarterly stormwater sampling, inspections, monitoring, and field assessments using approved procedures and safety practices.
• Support pollution prevention, illicit discharge identification, spill response, and corrective action activities to protect the collection system, WRRF, and receiving waters.
• Maintain organized program records, monitoring data, inspection files, equipment documentation, and compliance materials.

• Conducts quarterly monitoring on priority pollutants and PFAS, analyzes trends and makes recommendations.
• Manages PFAS and emerging contaminant monitoring programs, including sampling, source identification, industrial user surveys, laboratory coordination, regulatory…