Chief Operator at Waste Water Treatment Plant

• One (1) Full-time Vacancy
• 40 Hours per week
• M
  onday through Friday
• Grade J;
  Hourly Rate Range: $37.82 - $49.19
• Anticipated Hiring Hourly Rate Range: $37.82 - $42.60

This position is responsible for performing supervisory and skilled manual and technical work in coordinating and directing work crews in the efficient operations of the City’s Wastewater Treatment Plant and its ancillary sewer, leachate and flood control pumping facilities.

• Manages the operations, laboratory and maintenance functions of the Wastewater Treatment Plant and makes appropriate corrective actions to mitigate potential problems and restore proper operating standards and methods to mechanical and biological processes.
• Prepares necessary reports; reviews lab reports of employees, assists in the preparation of annual budgets as requested; recommends repairs and other plant needs for capital improvements process; recommends Plant needs to the Superintendent.
• Facilitates work assignments for the crew, supervises the training of new staff, and recommends disciplinary actions to the Superintendent.
• Understands and enforces all safety regulations.
• Responsible for the ordering of supplies and equipment including chemicals, tools, and replacement parts; maintains inventory of supplies.
• Performs lab tests or participates in the laboratory rotation; obtains and tests samples of influent and effluent as required by regulation or Plant schedule; monitors computer readings of Plant operations to ensure efficient operations and assists in making adjustments as necessary.
• Oversees Plant and Pumping Station operations to determine efficiency, safety, and quality; evaluates alarms and determines appropriate remedial actions in both emergency and non-emergency situations.
• Directs flood control pump station operations as weather or other conditions require; manages maintenance of flood control pumps and ancillary flood control pumping facilities.
• Understands and enforces all safety regulations.
• May be required to perform responsibilities of subordinate positions.
• Performs similar or related work as required.

Under administrative direction, working from municipal policies and objectives; individual establishes short-range plans and objectives, own performance. Consults with supervisor only where clarification, interpretation, or exception to municipal policy may be required. The employee is also expected to attempt to resolve conflicts which arise and coordinate with others as necessary.

Employee, as a regular and continuing part of the job, is accountable for the quality and quantity of work done by subordinates and assures the accomplishment of the assigned work in the prescribed manner.

The work requires examining, analyzing and evaluating facts and circumstances surrounding individual problems and situations and determining actions to be taken within the limits of standard or accepted practices. Guidelines include a large body of policies, practices and precedents which may be complex or conflicting. Judgment is used in analyzing specific situations to determine appropriate actions. Employee is expected to weigh efficiency and relative priorities in conjunction with procedural concerns in decision making.

Requires understanding, interpreting and applying federal, state and local regulations.

The work consists of employing many different concepts, theories, principles, techniques and practices. Assignments typically concern such matters as studying trends in the field for application to the work, assessing services and recommending improvements.

Relationships are constantly with co-workers, vendors, contractors the public, groups and/or individuals such as peers from other organizations, and representatives of professional organizations. The employee serves as a recognized authority of the organization in matters of substance or considerable importance. May be required to discuss controversial matters where tact is required to avoid friction and obtain cooperation.

The employee has access to sensitive and confidential information in the performance of their duties, including personnel records.

Associate's Degree in engineering, environmental science or a related field, Bachelor's Degree preferred; three to five years of experience in municipal wastewater operations, with one to two…