Wastewater Treatment Supervisor, West Point D-Shift Crew

About the Role

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead a highly trained team of Operations and Maintenance staff and be a part of creating the strategic direction for a complex wastewater treatment system? If so, the Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) in King County (KC) is hiring a Wastewater Supervisor for the D-Crew Shift Operations team at West Point WWTP. West Point is one of three King County regional wastewater treatment plants that serve to protect water quality and public health in the central Puget Sound region by providing high quality and effective treatment to wastewater collected from our local sewer agencies.

We collect and clean wastewater while recovering valuable resources for a healthy and resilient Puget Sound. King County's wastewater operations staff provides the expertise and dedication required to operate and maintain wastewater treatment and collection facilities to ensure protection of the environment and the health of all King County communities.

As a Wastewater Treatment Supervisor, you will be responsible for supervising personnel, ensuring compliance with regulations and requirements and performing long‑term and short‑term workload planning, budgeting, training and performance management. In addition, this position provides technical expertise in the operation and monitoring of all wastewater treatment, odor control, collection and conveyance system equipment and processes, and ensures established safety policies, guidelines, regulations, and workplace standards are maintained and followed.

• Supervising personnel who monitor, operate, and maintain a wastewater treatment facility and/or collection and conveyance system.
• Plan, schedule, coordinate, monitor and review the daily work of a crew and the long‑range planning and scheduling of a crew. Ensure timely completion and quality of work by crew.
• Participate in long‑range facilities planning.
• Review and evaluate employee job performance and provide constructive feedback; provide mentoring; recommend and/or initiate disciplinary action.
• Review plans, designs or procedures for assigned segment of major construction projects with contractors, design engineers, vendors and agency’s construction management division.
• Organize, coordinate and provide technical expertise on long‑range special projects; provide direction to senior staff on special projects.
• Assist senior staff in scheduling and prioritizing work orders with other divisions, departments and agencies.
• Plan, schedule and provide training to others and maintain training records on employees.
• Review laboratory data and recommend and/or make process control decisions.
• Coordinate division, department and other agencies’ responses to unusual occurrences and emergencies; take corrective action as appropriate.
• Ensure adherence to all policies, standards and procedures.
• Operate, monitor and control equipment and systems using complex computer systems.
• Prepare technical reports of plant operations for submittal to management and state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Assume operational responsibilities in the absence of the Plant Manager for rotating shifts and for other operations.
• Perform the duties of the other classifications within the Wastewater Treatment Operations series as needed.

• Wastewater Group III or IV Wastewater certification issued by WA Dept of Ecology.
• Advance level experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting primary wastewater treatment equipment and processes.
• Advance level experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting secondary wastewater treatment equipment and processes.
• Skill in facilitating short‑term & long‑term workload planning, training and performance management.
• Knowledge of the description and function of computerized remote and supervisory control systems used to control, operate and monitor a major wastewater treatment system.
• Knowledge of project management techniques and principles.
• Experience serving as a technical resource.

• Decision Quality – Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Ensures Accountability – Holding self and others accountable to meet…