Water Treatment Operator
Job
Overview
- Industrial, Manufacturing
- Construction Management and Commissioning
- Permanent
- South Carolina
159340
$ 55000 - $ 62400
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Water Treatment Plant Operator
Function:
The Waste Treatment Plant A Operator is responsible for the overall operation of the waste treatment plant; monitoring all available process information frequently throughout the shift to ensure standard operating conditions and NPDES permitting are being maintained on plant equipment, and in particular he/she will analyze problems as they arise and take the necessary action to correct the problem in a safe and efficient manner.
Qualifications:
- HS Diploma or greater
- Water Treatment License
Responsibilities:
- Have a thorough knowledge of the waste treatment plant and all licenses are up to date.
- Monitor all available process information frequently throughout the shift
- Acknowledge all alarms and take preventive action on potential problems and/or corrective action on actual problems.
- Take readings from the computer on processing equipment and make checks on process variables as required.
- Shut down and start-up equipment as the need arises.
- Perform routine tasks as necessary to control the process.
- Interacts/communicates with the D-3 system when setting or changing set points or alarm status, displaying various face plate/graphics.
- Read the control room logbook at the start of shift
- Coordinates all work efforts with wastewater treatment maintenance operator.
- Maintain communication with night shift personnel at the boiler house of any problems that might have occurred during the night.
- Start the decant sludge tank.
- Pull outfall samples, MG samples, pre-treatment samples, and waste treatment samples and carry samples to the lab and other designated areas.
- Pull all required samples per sample schedule.
- Pulls aeration sample and checks the sludge rate.
- Run 02 samples by using the waste treatment sample equipment.
- Run, record, and clean up nutrient tests.
- Set up composite samplers to take samples automatically.
- Record sample results in the computer.
- Keep neat, accurate, and timely records.
- Enter performance gaps, manufacturing events and improvement ideas into the Otis database.
- Check clarifier sludge blanket with a rod to show sludge level.
- Open and close any valves as the need arises.
- Inspect ground water dowtherm recovery system.
- Perform routine checks on all the equipment and takes reading on the equipment as necessary
- Perform routine checks on 001 and 002 outfalls.
- Performs routine checks on dikes and drains the water from dikes when necessary.
- Perform necessary calibration on meters and polymer pumps.
- Analyzes problems by using flow diagrams, graphic displays and take necessary action to correct the problem.
- Passes on information to the boiler house operators on process upsets, or changes made during the daily operation.
- Creates work orders on equipment when the need arises
- Secure all equipment and piping systems for routine or emergency repairs.
- Keep a clean and orderly work area
- Bush hog the areas around the WWTP, the field between the building and the railroad tracks, the field north of the 5.5-million-gallon basin and the area around 002 outfall building.
- Run the sludge press as necessary.
- Fill out manifest sheet on waste management sludge hopper.
- Pull storm water samples as necessary during periods of rain longer than 30 minutes and a total of one tenth of an inch of rain twice during the year. A total of eighteen samples is to be pulled from each outfall and placed in different size containers, iced down and add preservatives as listed.
- Keep track of the chemicals received and used at the wastewater treatment plant.
- Calculate Sludge Return Time (SRT) and Sludge Volume Index (SVI)
- Run weekly chlorine standard. (Wednesday)
- Set up weekly fecal coliform test, normally on Mondays.
- Fill in for vacation.
- Calibrate pH meters, DO meters and Temperature Probes.
- Perform routine duties on COD analyzers such as mixing the chemicals, clean the tubing and calibrate the analyzer.
- Pull a Chronic Toxicity sample as necessary to send to an outside lab.
- Keeps track of all compliance issues concerning the waste treatment plant.
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