Water Treatment Plant Operator

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WATER TREATMENT PLANT OPERATOR

Positions Available:
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Salary: $15.50 per hour

Under the direct supervision of the Water Treatment Plant Lead Operator the Water Treatment Plant Operator controls treatment plant machines and equipment to purify and clarify water for human consumption and for industrial use by performing the following duties. The Water Treatment Plant is a 24 (twenty-four) hour 7 (seven) day per week operation facility and requires the following duties.

• Protects the public health.
• Runs process control on incoming raw water.
• Sets dosages on chemicals and disinfectants using chemical feed pumps and chlorinators.
• Adjust incoming raw water flow according to the demand of the system.
• Record untreated water use in production and does basic water lab analysis such as turbidity, Ph, hardness, chlorides, alkalinity, total organic compounds, total dissolved solids, and chlorine residuals.
• Store clean treated water in ground storage tanks ready for distribution.
• Backwash filters to remove settle solids accumulated on filter bed.
• Remove sludge from treatment units and disposes.
• Maintain system pressure, monitor elevated water storage tanks.
• Does mechanical, electrical and instrumentation on treatment units.
• Collects water distribution samples, submit to state lab.
• Keeps chemical inventory and orders when needed.
• Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual record keeping.
• Handles customer complaints.
• Perform work in accordance with all federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations and within mandated and appropriate safety standards.
• Maintain and promote excellent relations and communications with co-workers. This includes sharing the workload to maintain balance. This may include helping to train and orient new employees in acquiring skills in department policies and procedures, and department functions.
• Perform all duties in accordance with all City of San Benito safety policies and other applicable state or federal regulations.

• High School diploma or GED, ability to write routine reports and correspondence, ability to add and subtract, ability of apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Current Texas Driver’s license.
• Must have or be able to obtain TCEQ license within one (1) year of employment if not currently licensed. This position will require additional certifications as required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
• Membrane filtration experience preferred.
• Ability to read, follow directions and complete basic reports.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to add and subtract and use calculator.
• Ability of apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables on standardized situations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance. The…