Operator - Night Shift

Job Summary

Inspect, maintain, and control process equipment and perform mechanical maintenance throughout the plant. Adhere to all applicable regulations to provide a 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 refurbishing 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 within permit compliance, at/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 to include sweeping, shoveling, and other housekeeping activities.
• Maintain work tools and ensure work tools are put in an appropriate secure place after using.
• 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.
• Able 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 HS Diploma or equivalent (GED).
• 2 – 4 years’ experience as an operator in wastewater, steam, or other process plant operations, or equivalent.
• Experience with HMI (Human Machine Interface) systems a plus.

Massachusetts Grade 2 Municipal Wastewater License required

• Talking, Hearing, Seeing, Standing, Sitting, Walking, Fingering, Stooping, Crouching, Grasping, and Lifting up to 100lbs.
• Activities occur inside and out.
• Noise:
  Sufficient noise to cause worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• Hazards:
  Includes a variety of physical conditions such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to bio-solids.
• Vibration:
  Exposure to oscillating movements of extremities or whole body.
• The worker frequently is in close quarters, crawl space, shafts, manholes, small enclosed rooms, small sewage and water line pipes, and other areas which could cause claustrophobia.

$20-25 per hour.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all essential job functions, knowledge, skills, abilities, efforts, and physical or working conditions associated with a position.

High School

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