Pretreatment Technician

The City of Cayce is seeking a detail-oriented and technically minded Pretreatment Technician to support the City'sIndustrial Pretreatment Program and help ensure compliance with local, state,and federal regulations. This position works closely with the Pretreatment Coordinator and Director of Compliance and Laboratories to monitor industrial users,collect and evaluate data, conduct field sampling and inspections, maintain records, and support the City's wastewater pretreatment compliance efforts.

The Pretreatment Technician performs skilled andsemi-skilled work in support of the City's Industrial Pretreatment Program.

Under the general supervision of the Pretreatment Coordinator and Director of Compliance and Laboratories, this position assists with industrial user monitoring, inspections, sampling, recordkeeping, data analysis, permit tracking, and regulatory compliance activities.

• Maintainsknowledgeandunderstandingofthe Industrial Pretreatment Programforcompliancewithlocal ,state,and federal regulations.
• Knows and utilizes skills, procedures, codes, regulations, etc. required to complete job tasks.
• Maintainsrecordsofinformationfromindustrial users.
• Assistswithcollection,review,anddataentryofdischargemonitoringreportsfromindustrial users.
• Works with Pretreatment Coordinator to detect performance problems with industrial users.
• Performs field sampling as needed for compliance and investigation of industrial users.
• Utilizes the City’spretreatmentmanagementsoftware,e.g. Linko.
• Helps Create and maintain methods of tracking permit milestones and annual inspection/sampling dates.
• Schedulesannualindustrialsamplesandperformsindustrialinspectionsinaccordancewithfederalandstaterequirements with the assistance of the
• Pretreatment Coordinator and/or Director of Compliance and Laboratories.
• Correspondswithindustrialusercontactsviaphoneoremailregardingdaily/regular communications.
• Coordinates with other
  
  Pretreatment staff as well as contract laboratories to ensure industrial user sampling follows EPA and SCDHEC NPDES requirements.
• Evaluates and interprets data using statistical analyses to generate related reports and charts.
• Communicatesandcoordinatesregularlywithotherstomaximizetheeffectivenessandefficiencyof interdepartmental operations and activities.
• Attends pretreatment consortium meetings,workshops, training, etc. to enhance job knowledge and skills and toremain current on the principles,practices, and requirements of industrial pretreatment.
• Receivesandrespondstoinquiries,concerns,complaints,andrequestsforassistancefromcustomersandthegeneral public regarding areas of responsibility as directed by Pretreatment staff.

• Preferabachelor’s or associate degree in biology,chemistry,environmentalscienceorotherrelatedprogramor equivalent such as physical chemical or biological license, oras determined by City of Cayce Pretreatment management.
• Experiencewithpretreatment,laboratories,wastewatertreatment,plantoperationsorregulationsis preferred.
• Requirescomputingorperformingarithmeticoperationsusingdataor information.
• Requiresperformingworkinvolvingguidelinesand rules.
• Requiresreadingtechnicalinstructions,procedures,manuals,system maps,regulations,andchartstosolvepractical problems;composingroutinereportsandspecializedreports,formsandbusinessletterswithproperformat;speaking compound sentences using normal grammar and word form.

• Requiresfrequentproblemsolvingandnormalattentionwithshortperiodsofconcentrationforaccurateresultsandoccasional exposure to unusual pressure.

• Knowledge of City’sSewer Use Ordinance and Enforcement Response  Plan.
• Knowledge of EPA and South Carolina General Pretreatment Standards.
• Knowledge of Linko Pretreatment Management…