Biological Wastewater Operator

Responsibilities

• Responding to customers and opportunities with thankfulness
• Working with the Director of Wastewater Operations and other Operations team members to ensure customers remain compliant
• Focusing on improvements and growth in every aspect of your position and the business
• Understanding SDS and utilizing appropriate PPE and safety equipment as required
• Understanding the pH scale, calibrating pH meters, and adjusting pH as needed with limited assistance
• Proper record documentation including flow reports, logbooks, rounds sheets, timesheets and mileage
• Understanding basic p/c and or biological treatment functions including pH adjustment, coagulation, flocculation, and clarification
• Operating various treatment processes (DAF, Hydroxide Precipitation, Extended Air, etc.) with assistance
• Basic understanding of discharge permits
• Operating/understanding chemical feed systems and troubleshooting with assistance
• Using Service Fusion, Acumatica and other systems as required with limited errors
• Act with agility in responding to customer needs including off shift and weekend hours as required

• A high school diploma required;
  Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Basic experience in Microsoft Office
• Experience in applicable federal, state, and local wastewater policies and procedures

• Must be able to lift at least 50 pounds
• Must be able to position self to analyze and review equipment by stooping, bending, and kneeling
• Must be able to occasionally ascend/descend ladders and steps to service a plant
• Must be able to walk through large facilities
• Must be able to work in environmental settings

• Running wastewater treatment plants within permit limits
• Communicating with the Director of Wastewater to ensure compliance and improvements
• Working with the OU team to help grow the company
• Be action oriented: enjoy working hard; be full of energy for the things you see as challenging, not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seize more opportunities than others.
• Be customer focused: dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; listen intently, get first‑hand customer information, and use it for improvements in products and services; act with customers in mind; establish and maintain effective relationships with customers and gain their trust and respect.
• Process management: good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; know how to organize people and activities; understand how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow; know what to measure and how to measure it; recognize opportunities for synergy and integration; simplify complex processes; get more out of fewer resources.
• Be a problem solver: use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probe all fruitful sources for answers; see hidden problems; be excellent at honest analysis; look beyond the obvious and don’t stop at the first answers.
• Have composure: be cool under pressure; do not become defensive or irritated when times are tough; be mature; hold things together during tough times; handle stress; don’t be knocked off balance by the unexpected; don’t show frustration when resisted or blocked; be a settling influence in a crisis; understand the audience and dynamic of each wastewater facility and use effective ways to interact in each facility to provide consistency and calm.
• Have functional/technical skills; be detailed: have the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment; thorough in accomplishing tasks through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small; ability to see and pay attention to details; ability to recognize component parts of a procedure or object, and verify correctness or error in individual parts of procedures.
• Living out core values and core competencies
• High level of organizational and planning skills
• Ability to communicate and interact with people
• Managing your time and schedule with efficiency
• Conscientious personality and attitude
• Passing inspections
• No permit violations
• Achieving quarterly goals and weekly commitments