WATER TREATMENT SUPERVISOR

Typical Duties

• Supervises 4 Water Treatment Plant Operator III’s or IV’s; assigns and monitors work; trains and develops staff.
• Leads hiring, training, advancement, promotion, and status changes of division employees; evaluates performance and disciplines employees as necessary.
• Directs and manages proper operation, monitoring, maintenance and repair and compliance for the complex water treatment plants and sources to ensure facilities produce drinking water that meets Utah Division of Drinking Water regulations, Utah Division of Water Quality permit limits, a local sewer pretreatment permit, including optimizing asset life.
• Manages 24/7 review of SCADA control system trends to verify health of water treatment systems.
• Directs daily and weekly regulatory compliance requirements including daily integrity testing of membrane filters, calibration, and verification of critical water quality instrumentation, and daily operational laboratory testing for plant operational needs.
• Safeguards treatment plants are operated in accordance with associated local sewer pretreatment permit requirements and leads routine inspections with sewer district.
• Supervises operation of various pieces of electrical equipment – including: valves, pumps and machinery, heaters, motors, meters, chemical feed systems, programmable logic controllers, monitoring devices (transducers, pressure switches, motor & power monitoring equipment and analytical devices (turbidimeters, pH meters, chlorine residual analyzers, etc.)
• Directs maintenance, repair, calibration and validation of equipment at sources and treatment plants utilizing computerized Maintenance Management Software. Develops maintenance plans and schedules for chemical feed systems and chemical storage, equipment, machinery, tools, building structures, including SCADA/telemetry hardware and radio equipment, chemical feed equipment, flow meters, pumps and motors, water plant quality instrumentation, electrical equipment, valves, regulators, wells, and generators.
• Uses advanced knowledge of water treatment and water chemistry to supervise appropriate adjustment to chemicals and operations to match water quality requirements.
• Captures operations with neighboring utilities and raw water users.
• Serves as a point of contact for the public regarding water quality issues.
• Ensures source management to achieve water rights schedules.
• Participates in Daily Shift Operator and on-call rotation which leads and monitors daily operations of treatment plants and sources on a 24-7-365 basis; responds to emergencies.

Minimum Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• 7 years of experience or a combination of equivalent experience (e.g. operator certifications or pertinent courses) in operation, maintenance and repair of water treatment plants.
• Utah Operators certification: Grade IV Water Distribution and Treatment.
• A valid State CDL License.
• Within 60-minute travel time from home while on-call and for emergency response.

Preferred Qualifications

• Supervisory experience.
• Associate’s degree in a related field.
• Direct Responsible Charge Operator Certification.