Water Treatment Supervisor

Rate of Pay: $46.53-$56.97 per hour (D.O.E.)

• Each Supervisor supervises 4 Water Treatment Plant Operator III’s or IV’s; assigns and monitors work; trains and develops staff.
• Leads hiring, training, advancement, promotion, and status changes of division employees; evaluates performance and disciplines employees as necessary.
• Ensures treatment plants are operated in accordance with associated local sewer pretreatment permit requirements and leads routine inspections with sewer district.
• Supervises operation of various pieces of electrical equipment – including: valves, pumps and machinery, heaters, motors, meters, chemical feed systems, programmable logic controllers, monitoring devices (transducers, pressure switches, motor & power monitoring equipment and analytical devices (turbidimers, pH meters, chlorine residual analyzers, etc.)
• Directs maintenance, repair, calibration and validation of equipment at sources and treatment plants utilizing computerized Maintenance Management Software. Develops maintenance plans and schedules for chemical feed systems and chemical storage, equipment, machinery, tools, building structures, including SCADA/telemetry hardware and radio equipment, chemical feed equipment, flow meters, pumps and motors, water plant quality instrumentation, electrical equipment, valves, regulators, wells, and generators.
• Uses advanced knowledge of water treatment and water chemistry to supervise appropriate adjustment to chemicals and operations to match water quality requirements.
• Coordinates operations with neighboring utilities and raw water users. Ensures source management to achieve water rights schedules.
• Participates in Daily Shift Operator and on-call rotation which leads and monitors daily operations of treatment plants and sources on a 24-7-365 basis; responds to emergencies. Must have master level system knowledge to make independent operational decisions.
• 7 years of experience or a combination of equivalent experience (e.g. operator certifications or pertinent courses) in operation, maintenance and repair of water treatment plants.
• Utah Operators certification:
  Grade IV Water Distribution and Treatment.
• Valid State CDL License.
• Within 60-minute travel time from home while on-call and for emergency response.
• Direct Responsible Charge Operator Certification.

• The employee must frequently lift and/or more up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds to be able to maintain equipment.
• This position requires a frequent amount of physical activity to climb in and out of vaults, confined spaces, and equipment; must be able to work within mine tunnel entrances.
• The employee is frequently required to observe details at close range in order to operate SCADA and maintain equipment.
• Work is performed primarily in an office, treatment plants, vehicles, and outdoor settings, in all weather conditions including extreme temperatures.
• Wears protective personal protective gear such as face shields, safety glasses, chemical protective gear, gloves, respirators, hearing protection, wet gear, rubber steel toed boots, etc.
• Frequently works near moving mechanical parts; in high, precarious places, is routinely exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes, airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Exposure to stressful situations while troubleshooting technical operations to ensure high quality drinking water and stream water and compliance with Utah DDW and DWQ requirements.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high.
• May require small amounts of travel to and from meetings, trainings, and conferences.