Senior Maintenance Technician – Utilities (Waste Water Treatment) – Day Shift
Listed on 2026-08-24
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Engineering
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic -
Manufacturing / Production
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Utility Technician
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION? You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide.
Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.
Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this valuable role you will provide technical expertise and guidance supporting the start‑up of the plant utilities and daily operations. This position is on a rotating day shift (2‑2‑3 schedule, 7 AM to 7 PM).
The Senior Wastewater Treatment Operator/Mechanic is responsible for the operation, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of industrial wastewater treatment systems to ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal discharge permit requirements. This position serves as a technical lead for wastewater treatment operations, laboratory testing, process control, preventive maintenance, equipment repairs, and operator training.
The Senior Operator/Mechanic works independently to maintain treatment system performance, monitor permit compliance parameters, and perform mechanical and electrical maintenance on wastewater treatment equipment including pumps, mixers, chemical feed systems, Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) systems, instrumentation, controls, and associated utilities.
- Operate and monitor industrial wastewater treatment processes including equalization, pH adjustment, chemical treatment, dissolved air flotation (DAF), sludge handling, and discharge systems.
- Monitor wastewater flow, pH, Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Nitrogen (TN), Ammonia Nitrogen (NH3‑N), Total Phosphorus (TP), Chlorides, and other permit‑regulated parameters.
- Conduct routine inspections of treatment systems, tanks, pumps, valves, piping, instrumentation, and process equipment.
- Evaluate treatment performance and make operational adjustments to maintain compliance with discharge permits.
- Monitor SCADA, PLC, HMI, and automated control systems to ensure proper operation.
- Respond to process alarms and emergency situations to prevent permit violations and operational disruptions.
- Maintain accurate operational logs, inspection reports, and compliance documentation.
- Follow all environmental, health, and safety regulations and company policies.
- Utilize appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Participate in confined space entry, lockout/tagout, chemical handling, and emergency response activities.
- Maintain compliance with wastewater discharge permits and environmental regulations.
- Perform operation, troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, testing and documentation/logs of site wastewater treatment system.
- Support operations, maintenance and repair activities on utility equipment and systems providing utilities serving Manufacturing, Lab, and various operations across the ANC site.
- Specific plant systems include: steam, chilled water, compressed air, cooling tower water, and heating hot water.
- Specific Manufacturing and Lab utility systems include: clean steam, water for injection (WFI), process cooling water, process air, process gases, process waste, HVAC systems, walk‑in cold rooms and freezers, and other environmental control units (chambers).
- Maintenance activities include: inspections, testing, minor/major equipment overhauls, pump rebuild/replacements, valve rebuild/replacements, HVAC troubleshooting/repair, piping modification/repair, etc.
- Additional responsibilities include partnering with maintenance service providers and equipment vendors.
- Complete quality and safety documentation and completion of work in a safe, compliant, and timely manner according to planning and predefined schedules with minimal impact to production while aligning…
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