WATER PLANT OPERATOR

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Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:46:21 -0600
$12.00 per hour- GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES- 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. Duties include, but not limited to, the following: • 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 • Work with toxic chemicals used in the treatment process • 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 annually record keeping • Handles customer complaints • Other duties as assigned DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS • High School diploma • Valid 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 • 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 employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this includes close vision. • The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. • Ability to work flexible hours, to include, various work shifts to meet the demands of the operations of the Water Plant. This position of employment requires satisfactory job performance of six-month probation from starting date. This position requires State of Texas (TCEQ) licensing. This employee must pass all licensing requirements to successfully complete his/her employment expectations.
The above noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the associate a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. As the City’s demands change so will the essential functions of this position.
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