Water Treatment Superintendent

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Job Category: Academic Staff

Employment Type: Regular

Job Profile: Heat/Cool Plant Superintendent

The Water Treatment Superintendent is part of the UW-Madison Division of Facilities Planning and Management’s Physical Plant, in the operational area of the Heating and Cooling Power Plant. This position protects high-value infrastructure, ensures regulatory compliance, and mitigates operational risk through managing the UW Heating Plant’s Water Treatment program for the 24/7/365 production of critical utilities for the UW campus community.

This position ensures optimized water quality maintains plant efficiency, including reduced energy and maintenance costs.

The Water Treatment Superintendent works with vendors, faculty, staff, and the Wisconsin DNR. They will maintain DNR permits and reporting to ensure compliance for the UW Heating Plants. They will serve as the Subject Matter Expert within the UW Heating Plants and provide guidance and training for safe handling of chemicals, sampling, and testing procedures. The Water Treatment Superintendent oversees the Water Treatment Department, within the Heating and Cooling Power Plant;

this includes any water treatment operators as well as providing training and oversight to shift operators to ensure water quality is maintained.

The expected schedule for this position is 6:00AM to 2:30PM from Monday to Friday with occasional nights and weekends.

Ongoing/Renewable
Full-Time: 100% FTE

• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• Leads, mentors, and coaches plant staff to ensure safe, reliable, and uninterrupted utility production of critical services
• Makes technical decisions, coordinates with other plants' production activities, performs hands‑on mechanical maintenance, repairs, and adjustments, and inspects the work of staff and ensures optimum performance of critical equipment
• Plans, coordinates, and reviews plans for major plant repairs
• Monitors contractors and project status
• Supervises and directs plant operation
• Develops and maintains plant operational standards and procedures
• Trains operating personnel in use of the procedures
• Monitors control systems and operations, watches for changes, and makes adjustments and repairs as necessary
• Be available or assign others for consultation of plant operations, as needed, for a plant in operation 24/7 year‑round
• Assesses problems and takes corrective actions as appropriate to maintain critical plant operations

Department: Facilities Planning & Management (FP&M), Physical Plant Department;
Heating and Cooling Power Plant

The Charter Street Heating & Cooling Plant and the Walnut Street Heating & Cooling Plant supply steam, chilled water, compressed air, and electricity to the UW campus, as well as to UW Hospital & Clinics, the US Forest Service Forest Products Laboratories, and the Division of Veterans Affairs VA Hospital, and some other non-campus customers.

Our plant operators also coordinate with the West Campus Cogeneration facility (which produces electricity for Madison Gas and Electric customers) on steam and chilled water needs for heating and air‑conditioning on campus.

The Division of Facilities Planning & Management (FP&M) is a full‑spectrum service organization that builds, maintains, and operates the physical environment of UW‑Madison in the university's education, research, and outreach activities. We are responsible for everything from the building projects that change the face of campus to the flowers that beautify the grounds.

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