Waste Water Treatment Plant Operator

Job Duties

At the full performance level of the position, you will perform the following duties. As a developmental employee, you will be trained and supervised to perform the duties:

• Operate a Waste Water Treatment Plant to provide the full range of the treatment process, that is required to meet National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit conditions.
• Provide four stages of plant treatment, namely: Pretreatment, and primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment
• Operate a variety of pumps, valves, gates, feeders, flocculates, clarifies (purifying liquids), filters and other controls and equipment to move waterborne domestic waste through the various states of treatment.
• Collects samples, runs tests on influent, intermediate stages and effluent, and adjusts chemical additions according to specified requirements
• Performs operation and maintenance on all equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures, manufacturers specifications/manuals and written and oral instructions from superior.
• Maintains required records, operator logs, flow charts, and calibration charts.