Stationary Engineer; Sewage Plant

We're hiring at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO)!

Do you have a Grade I or higher California Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Certificate or a Grade I or higher California Water Environment Mechanical Technology Certificate? If so, we're hiring multiple journey-level Stationary Engineers to join our Sewage Plant team at SFO.

In this role, you’ll help operate and maintain the complex systems that keep our sewage treatment plant running safely and efficiently. It’s a great fit for experienced plant operators or mechanically skilled professionals who enjoy hands‑on work and want to make a meaningful impact behind the scenes.

If you’re excited to support the operations that keep SFO moving, we encourage you to apply!

• Makes regular visual, audio, olfactory, and tactile inspections and/or manual tests of all plant machinery and equipment, including auxiliary equipment, in an assigned area or pumping station, maintaining logs and records of required maintenance, completed maintenance, equipment and work order history by taking periodic readings of gauges and meters to ensure that the sewage plant is working safely, efficiently, and properly;
  
  and to provide an accurate record of maintenance, preventive maintenance, equipment, and work order history.
• Performs a variety of manual tasks requiring the handling of equipment exposed to raw sewage; collects and performs simple assessments of raw sewage and chemical samples on a prescribed schedule at specific locations by making chemical and physical assessments to assess the efficiency of the treatment processes and to ensure compliance with the NPDES Permit (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System, Permit).
• Operates, inspects, maintains, overhauls and makes major and minor repairs to a wide variety of pumping, heating, ventilating, process machinery, and equipment in a wastewater treatment plant or pumping station, including pumps, bar racks, grit collectors, conveyors and washers, chlorinators, evaporators and storage tanks, sludge collectors, drive units, deodorizing equipment, and a wide variety of metering and recording devices to assure the safety and efficiency of equipment and facilities;
  
  includes lubricating and greasing machinery and equipment; cleaning and maintaining machinery, equipment, and facility to ensure safety and equipment reliability.
• Inspects sewage pipelines, tanks, and gates to check for the condition of equipment, for infiltration and blockage of debris and build‑up of mineral deposits, etc., by draining tanks, monitoring pressure and flow indicators, and by visual inspection to determine any problem areas to ensure proper operation.
• Operates, inspects and maintains solids treatment and flocculating chemical systems by monitoring and adjusting flow indicators or controllers, by visual inspection and by analysis of samples to ensure optimum treatment.
• Operates, inspects and maintains disinfection and dechlorination systems by performing tests and analyzing samples to determine proper chemical dosages to ensure that effluent or final discharge meets regional and state pollution control requirements.
• May assist in training and supervising the work of apprentices or other trainees by oral instruction and hands‑on demonstration in the operation and maintenance of sewage treatment processes to ensure competent performance of required skills by apprentices and other trainees.
• Perform duties as listed in the 7372 Stationary Engineer, Sewage Plant class specification, which can be found on DHR’s website.

Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad. Please review our articles on Employment Application and Minimum Qualifications and Verification of Experience and/or Education for considerations taken when reviewing applications.

• Four (4) years of verifiable journey‑level Stationary Engineer, Plant Operator and/or Plant Mechanic experience in the operation, maintenance, and repair of a variety of mechanical and electrical pumping, heating,…