Position Purpose:
In coordination with Plant Manager the incumbent will be responsible for providing the day to day oversight of department staff, shift operations, troubleshoot equipment problems and generate work orders as needed, as well as providing operational, commercial and personnel leadership to the plant shift operating teams to maintain efficient and cost effective facility operations while maintaining compliance with all Corporate and Regulatory environmental, health and safety rules and requirements.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities:
- Must possess and maintain a NYS 3A wastewater certification - ability to be delegated as Operator in charge.
- Supervises a staff of Plant Operators – trainees, 1A licensed Operators, 2A licensed Operators and 3A licensed Operators and directs their daily duties in accordance with the requirements of the Plant.
- Work with other plant departments, Engineering, and contractors to coordinate projects.
- Lead and guide shift crews to monitor all facets of plant operations and incoming data.
- Ability to stand watch on an assigned Operation station in the event of emergency or staffing issues.
- Reviews all operations station worksheets for anomalies and errors.
- Checks worksheets prior to entering data or turning over for data entry into Hach Wims.
- Assists operations staff with troubleshooting operational issues.
- Performs visual observations of the various process areas over the course of the shift to ensure all compliance and safety measures are being met.
- Ability to process laboratory data to make process control change suggestions.
- Ability to calculate MCRT, SVI, Detention Time, Hydraulic Loading and other related process control measures.
- Maintains a logbook for plant operations during assigned shift.
- Manage, evaluate, schedule, and develop the O&M staff and always ensure adequate staffing.
- Coordinate alternate staff in the event of absences following the Overtime equalization policy.
- Provides leadership and directing in response to alarms and abnormal conditions and lead emergency response actions.
- Independently evaluates and/or supervises the evaluation of the operation, maintenance and performance of wastewater treatment facilities, processes, systems, and equipment.
- Reviews, and supervises implementation of system improvements including analyzing and optimizing existing system designs and operating parameters, supervising performance testing and troubleshooting and resolving complex operational, equipment and instrumentation problems.
- Reviews designs and constructed facilities and makes and approves recommendations for operational improvements.
- Oversees construction management personnel in implementing changes required during facilities upgrades and startup, supervises the work of operational services, treatment plant construction personnel in startup and initial operation of new or upgraded wastewater treatment facilities, processes, systems, and equipment.
- Participate in the development and compliance of operating policies ensuring compliance to all environmental and safety rules.
- Complete reports which document plant status, equipment, operating data, and operational events.
- Collect data on unplanned outages and make recommendations to minimize the probability of similar events.
- Serves as the real-time shift interface with the Commercial Group with respect to plant operations, outages, fuel, generations schedules.
- Perform Issuer and Verifier functions utilizing the approved Lock Out/Tag Out systems to help ensure that safe systems are always in place.
- Manage Department contract deliverables and scheduling.
- Responsible for ordering of materials and supplies.
- Ensures all equipment and processes are well maintained and functioning properly.
- Ensure that workstations and Treatment plant facilities are clean and safe in accordance with all regulatory requirements.
- Maintain proper operational documents and records.
- Assure work is performed in a safe and professional manner by following all corporate and regulatory policies, procedures, and emergency response procedures.
- Operates equipment and processes manually and through instrument control panels.
- Work an assigned shift which may include weekends and holidays, respond to emergencies, work additional hours to complete required tasks as/and when needed.
- Operate company and client owned vehicles.
- Carries out other duties as assigned.
Work Environment:
- Work is performed both inside and outside with exposure to all kinds of weather conditions.
- Incumbents may be occasionally exposed to some noise, sewage, silica, dust, fumes, smoke, gasses, greases, oils, electrical energy, solvents, and vibrations.
- Incumbents may work on slippery/uneven surfaces, around machinery with moving parts, moving objects/vehicles, and ladder/scaffolding, below ground and may be exposed to water and other liquid materials.