Operator - Night Shift

Job Location:

North Andover, MA (240 Charles Street, North Andover, MA 01845, USA)

Pay Range: $25–$27 per hour.

Inspect, maintain, and control process equipment and perform mechanical maintenance throughout the plant. Adhere to all applicable regulations to provide safe, reliable, and cost‑effective operation of the plant to meet processing, permit, and other applicable requirements.

• Apply to all regulations that provide safe, reliable, and cost‑effective operation of the plant to meet processing, permit, and other applicable requirements.
• Perform preventative, corrective and emergency mechanical maintenance on all equipment throughout the plant under the direction of the Plant Manager such as welding, piping and refurbish equipment.
• Identify, troubleshoot and repair mechanical malfunctions throughout the plant which includes documenting problem and resolution as well as reporting all problems and resolutions of mechanical malfunctions to the Plant Manager.
• Monitor and control plant operations in accordance with company policies and plant standard operating procedures.
• Maintain records of plant operations including, but not limited to, hourly operating data and abnormal operating conditions; ensure that the facility operations are within permit compliance, at or above design capability, and produced high‑quality product at all times.
• Perform fire guard duty as well as confined space watch.
• Participate and complete training programs within the time frame allotted.
• Perform any general work or other assignments necessary to ensure the safe, clean and efficient operation of the facility, including sweeping, shoveling and other housekeeping activities.
• Maintain work tools and ensure work tools are put in an appropriate secure place after use.
• Demonstrate safe behaviors at all times and perform the job in a safe manner.
• Perform biosolids sampling and testing.

• Ability to recognize operational inconsistencies and hazards in the workplace and display proper judgment in responding to them.
• Ability to operate powered equipment and tools in a safe and efficient manner while on ground surface as well as at heights.
• Ability to work varying shifts, overtime, holidays, on‑call duty and emergency call‑ins.
• Communication skills – verbal and written.
• Ability to operate a computer.
• Ability to enter confined spaces for inspections as well as perform corrective actions as needed.

• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED).
• 2–4 years of experience as an operator in wastewater, steam, or other process plant operations, or equivalent.
• Massachusetts Grade 2 Municipal Wastewater License required.
• Experience with HMI (Human Machine Interface) systems a plus.
• Preferred:
  High school or better.

• Talking, hearing, seeing, standing, sitting, walking, fingering, stooping, crouching, grasping, and lifting up to 100 lbs.
• Work is performed inside and outside the facility.
• Work is performed in a noisy environment requiring shouting to be heard.
• Work may involve hazards such as moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, scaffolding, high places, high heat, and exposure to bio‑solids.
• Work may involve vibration.
• Work may require close quarters, crawl space, shafts, manholes, small enclosed rooms, sewage and water line pipes, and other areas that could cause claustrophobia.

• Verbal and written communication.
• Ability to operate fire protection equipment.
• Ability to perform basic math.
• Mechanical and electrical aptitude.
• Knowledge of occupational hazards.
• Knowledge of plant fire protection apparatus.
• Ability to read and comprehend written material.
• Ability to recognize hazards in the workplace.
• Ability to travel.
• Ability to work varying shifts / OT / On‑Call.

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