Industrial Pretreatment Inspector

The City of Flagstaff is seeking an Industrial Pretreatment Inspector to support and enforce the City’s water and wastewater codes. This role performs a variety of technical field and office duties, including inspections, sampling, compliance evaluations, and customer outreach across industrial pretreatment, backflow prevention, cross-connection control, and FOG programs. The ideal candidate brings specialized knowledge of wastewater systems, regulatory compliance, and sampling techniques, and is comfortable working independently in diverse and sometimes hazardous environments while maintaining accurate records and ensuring adherence to federal, state, and local regulations.

• Provides excellent customer service to both internal and external customers
• Inspects industrial and commercial operations such as restaurants, laundries, gas stations, and manufacturers to ensure compliance with ordinances and permit requirements governing the discharge of non-residential waste
• Inspects commercial operations for proper cross connection controls and backflow prevention to ensure the integrity of the city's drinking water
• Inspects and monitors various construction projects for compliance with backflow prevention devices, grease interceptors, proper waste disposals, and water usage
• Field verifies correct installations for backflows and interceptors for certificate of occupancy process
• Inspects the dimensions, operations, and maintenance of floor drains, sand, grease, and lint traps, settling tanks, clarifiers, neutralizing tanks, grease removal equipment, and other equipment used in the treatment, disposal, and control of industrial and commercial liquid waste
• Inspects restaurants and interceptors for food service industry, including assuring compliance of interceptors for the city approved Fats, Oil and Grease (FOG) manual
• Engages in public outreach related to the cross-connection program, industrial pretreatment program and Fats, Oils and Grease programs to customers
• Attends staff meetings regularly to maintain consistent enforcement procedures and policy updates
• Conducts field tests and sampling events at permitted industries, treatment plants, and other commercial entities to ensure non-contamination of the city's wastewater collection and treatment systems, including pH, flow volumes, alkalinity, maintenance of sampling equipment, proper chain of custody handling, etc.
• Responsible for the proper and accurate record keeping of activities, files, and software databases for FOG, pretreatment, and backflows relating to local & federal code compliance and enforcement
• Uses gas detection equipment to determine oxygen content and whether potentially explosive gases may be present in confined spaces or sewers
• Works with industrial and commercial representatives in reviewing technical and regulatory issues regarding noncompliance
• Issues warning letters, under the authority of the council approved Enforcement Response Plan to address noncompliance issues that have an immediate impact to the city’s water distribution system, city wastewater collection system and FOG program
• Oversees plans and actions taken by industries and businesses to achieve and/or maintain compliance with local, state, or federal limits
• In conjunction with the Industrial Pretreatment Supervisor, reviews field inspection reports and monitors data to determine if further compliance action against industry is warranted and whether referral to the City Attorney, state, or federal agency is necessary
• Evaluates the need for industrial and commercial discharge wastewater pretreatment permits, and enforces the provisions of such permits
• Performs backflow testing and minor repairs to Water Services owned backflow devices
• Acts as a backup backflow tester for…