Water Plant Operator

Position: Water Plant Operator - $2,000 Hiring Bonus

About Us:The City of Glendale's Water Services Department provides over 250,000 residents with safe, reliable, and high-quality water and wastewater services. Glendale Water Services promotes industry best practices, leadership, and innovation to ensure our employees put public health and the vitality of our community first!

The Role:The Water Plant Operator position is an entry-level operator position which is staffed at the City's water treatment and water reclamation plants. Duties include the basic operation, maintenance, and control of one or more water treatment or reclamation facilities and/or well sites and lift stations; monitoring operations, canvasses processes, and performing various functions in process control. Work is performed under close supervision.

This position will be open until filled; applicants will be reviewed as they are received.

Salary and Hiring Bonus:This position is:

• FLSA non-exempt, and will earn overtime for any hours worked over 40 in a week
• A Grade 314 with with an hourly salary between $24.9611 - $37.4418

In addition to a generous salary, this position also offers a $2,000
* Hiring Bonus!

* Hiring Bonus to be paid as follows: $1,000 after 30 days of employment, and $1,000 after 6 months of employment. You must be an active employee
at the time the hiring bonus is scheduled to be paid
to receive the bonus. Current regular status City of Glendale employees are not eligible for hiring bonuses.


Benefits:

The City of Glendale offers a generous benefits package with competitive rates that become effective the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment.

Below are some City of Glendale benefits resources for your review:

• 2025 - 2026 Benefits Guide
• City of Glendale Benefits Presentation
• City of Glendale’s Benefits Page

Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Leave:

City of Glendale Regular status positions offer:

10.5 paid holidays per year, and full-time employees are also granted an additional 12 hours of holiday special leave per calendar year to celebrate their cultural or religious holidays

• Vacation leave accrues at:

  5.33 hours per pay period (138 hours/17.25
  * days per year)

  Increases to 6.12 hours per pay period after 5 years

  Then caps out at 7.6 hours per pay period after 10 years of service

Sick leave accrues at 4.4 hours per pay period (114 hours/14.25 days
* per year)

* Days per year estimates are based on an 8-hour work day

Retirement:

This position participates in the
Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS).

The current contribution rate is 12.00%

Contributions are mandatory, and are collected each pay period

To learn more about this role, please watch the video below:

Operates, maintains, monitors and controls all water plant and reclamation plant process equipment, including pumps, motors, aerators, blowers, chlorinators, chemical feeds, sludge equipment and basic laboratory instruments to ensure treated water meets City, state, and EPA quality standards.

Obtains water samples and performs water or wastewater lab tests.

Conducts various lab tests to determine proper process and operational controls.

Recognizes the need for and may take basic treatment and operational changes to the water and reclamation processes and distribution systems to meet water quality standards.

Changes pump settings as needed.

Monitors and adjusts flows through wells, booster pumps, zone splits and reservoirs to control the distribution system and system pressure.

Monitors and operates telemetry system and computerized process monitoring equipment.

Makes equipment adjustments and minor repairs, and/or prepares problem reports.

Read and interprets meters, gauges and instruments. Enters daily readings into computer databases.

Inventories, estimate usage and prepares orders for supplies. Ensures quality of material received.

Resolves water and reclamation complaint calls.

Unloads and stores hazardous chemicals, changes chlorine cylinders as necessary, batches and mixes hazardous chemical solutions and transfers bulk storage to day tanks for chemical feed operations.

Records daily activities in logbook.

Assists with public relations by answering inquiries and complaints, and giving plant tours.

Occasionally may assist other water…