Industrial Instrument​/Electrical Lead - SP

This is a transfer opportunity, and first consideration is given to qualified transfer‑eligible employees in the same classification. If no qualified transfer‑eligible candidate is selected, external applicants will be considered.

King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division has an immediate need for an Industrial Instrument and Electrical Lead at the South Treatment Plant. If you’ve been part of an Instrumentation and Electrical Team and are looking to grow and develop into a future leader, this position may be for you. This entry‑level leadership position will help guide and lead a combined shop of Instrument Technicians.

You’ll have the opportunity to use and expand your leadership and technical skills while continuing to grow within King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division O&M. As a mission‑critical employee for King County our efforts directly support operations as we collaborate with other crafts and work groups to resolve plant issues and achieve common goals. This position comes with competitive pay, and excellent benefits that include generous time off.

The responsibilities of this classification include overseeing and directing the technical work of employees performing instrumentation and control work in a wastewater treatment plant and associated facilities. Incumbents perform specific instrumentation and/or electrical duties and responsibilities and are considered working technical leads. This position will be primarily responsible for coordinating and scheduling work activities for the Instrument side of the team and working with the other Lead to guide the overall Instrumentation and Electrical Team.

In this position, you’ll have the opportunity to use and expand your leadership skills, all while continuing to grow in the instrumentation and electrical fields. This role will be involved in a variety of large‑and small‑scale plant reliability improvement projects.

• Provide lead direction and technical expertise to assigned staff. Lead responsibilities include determining work assignments, work priorities, work schedules, training, participating in hiring and providing feedback on performance evaluations. Technical responsibilities include but are not limited to training, troubleshooting, repairing and the maintenance of control systems.
• Write material requests to replace defective parts or additions to spare parts inventory. Review preventive maintenance procedures and practices on plant control systems; review documentation of changes made in plant and associated facilities instrument/electrical control systems; update technical and program documentation. Perform preventive maintenance and repair of all instrumentation at a wastewater treatment plant.
• Troubleshoot, repair and maintain all wastewater treatment plant control systems (computer, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical and power distribution). Analyze industrial processes in troubleshooting and repair of process control instrumentation. Design new controls and modify existing control systems. Troubleshoot and repair supervisory and distributed control systems and programmable logic controllers; apply electronic theory, digital electronics and proportional integral derivative control strategies to implement program changes to distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC), and supervisory and data acquisition systems.
  
  Determine appropriate inventory of spare parts for critical instrumentation. Repair and maintain the methane gas systems, including the programmable logic controller (PLC), gas compressors, gas drying system, and control and operation of waste gas burners or flares.
• Review blueprints, work orders and shop drawings to establish work schedules and to facilitate coordination of maintenance work. Coordinate and assist with other crafts when needed to perform assigned task. Assist in the inspection of instrumentation installed by external vendors or contractors. Witness and assess loop commission testing.
• Work with operations staff, engineers and suppliers to explain the functioning of processes and procedures needed to operate new equipment.…