Utility Plant Relief Operator

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This is an internal posting. Only current City of Hamilton employees who are IUOE, Local 20 members are eligible to apply. All other applicants will be rejected.

The base salary for this position is contingent upon the operating license you possess at the time of appointment. Class - Operator License I, II, III I-$69,264.00-$78,104.00 II- $74,173.00-$82,555.00 III- $78,582.00-$86,174.00 First Shift 6am-6pm (12 hours):
Base Pay + $35.71 per day when on stand by Second Shift 6pm-6am (12 hours):
Base Pay + $3.00/hr Holiday Pay:
When working on a holiday, operators are paid for 8 hours + double-time.

This position is utilized to fill normal and short notice vacancies in all operational classes within the Water Production Division. The relief operator, when not covering a vacancy, will work with Maintenance or the Administrative Group, as determined by Division Management. The schedule when not covering a vacancy will be 7:00 am - 3:00 pm. When covering a vacancy the hours are either 6:00 am - 6:00 pm or 6:00 pm - 6:00 am.

Typical work includes control of plant machines and equipment to treat and clarify water for human consumption and for industrial use by performing the following duties:

This is technical work in the operation and maintenance of the water production plants and facilities. Work in this class involves responsibility for the proper operation and maintenance of water production plants and facilities on relief/shift work coverage. Employees must be able to supervise the operation of a modern solids contact lime softening facility, a conventional lime softening facility, wells, storage vessels and booster stations, within the Division.

The primary responsibility of the work is keeping mechanical equipment in proper operating condition, maintaining pumping pressures, water flows, and maintaining levels in reservoirs, elevated tanks, plant storage, and process equipment. Employees work under the general direction of the Superintendent and the Asst. Superintendent, checking with them on unusual problems, keeping operational and other records and taking readings. Work is characterized by employment on rotating and/or relief shifts.

• Maintain, repairs, and adjusts water pumps, chemical feed machines, and other water plant equipment.
• Check the operation of mechanical equipment, to detect flaws and defects, and to effect prompt and appropriate remedial measures.
• Take accurate readings, keep routine records, and to make a variety of reports.
• Plan, schedules, and supervises the work of others in a manner conducive to full performance and high moral.
• Lift chemical bags weighing approximately 60 pounds repeatedly on a daily basis.
• Use a personal computer, with standard or customized software, to make reports, monitor, control, and balance plant and remote facilities within the system.
• Obtain the necessary knowledge in the overtime/call-in procedures in order to make such overtime/call-ins as needed.
• Operates chemical feed equipment, mixers and scraper drives, centrifugal pumps, control panels, chlorine dioxide generators, dry and liquid chemical feeders, filters, and other plant equipment and apparatus.
• Maintains assigned housekeeping areas in accordance with establish cleaning assignment policies.
• Observes the condition of the water entering plant, monitoring, and adding such chemicals as chlorine, sodium chlorite, fluoride, lime, carbon dioxide, and others as necessary.
• Collects and analyzes various water samples for quality assurance and control. Tests water samples to determine acidity, color, and impurities. Records data such as residual content of chemicals, water turbidity, and water pressure.
• Monitors the operation of deep wells furnishing the raw water supply. Uses judgment in determining the number of wells needed to furnish the proper amount of raw water during periods of high and low demand.
• Regulates operation of deep well pumps and high service pumps in the interest of maintaining the most efficient plant operation. Operates the raw water and finished water pumps, balancing them to maintain a safe margin in the settling basins, clear wells, reservoirs, and elevated tanks. Operates and controls electric motors, pumps, and valves to regulate flow of raw water into treating plant.
• Operates filters to produce clear, aesthetically pleasing potable water. Periodic backwash of filters using backwash pumps and related equipment and washes down filter walls. Monitors level of reclaim basin and operate pump(s) to reclaim settled wash water.
• Dumps specified amounts of chemicals such as chlorine, and lime into water or adjust automatic devices that admit specified amounts of chemicals into tanks to disinfect, deodorize, and clarify water. Ability to lift chemical bags weighing approximately 60 pounds repeatedly on a daily basis.
• Starts agitators to mix chemicals and allows impurities to settle to bottom of tank. Turn valves to regulate water through filter beds to remove impurities. Pumps…