Water/Wastewater Treatment Operator
Water/Wastewater Treatment Operator
J&J Worldwide Services
Annapolis, MD
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Description
General Summary
This position controls treatment plant machines and equipment to purify and clarify water. Coordinates all maintenance and repair work and outages in a manner that minimizes the disruption of potable water services. This position is located at the United States Naval Academy. Our mission is providing highly responsive and quality facility support to the midshipmen, staff, faculty and sailors located in Annapolis at USNA and Naval Support Annapolis.
Essential Duties
We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
Description
General Summary
This position controls treatment plant machines and equipment to purify and clarify water. Coordinates all maintenance and repair work and outages in a manner that minimizes the disruption of potable water services. This position is located at the United States Naval Academy. Our mission is providing highly responsive and quality facility support to the midshipmen, staff, faculty and sailors located in Annapolis at USNA and Naval Support Annapolis.
Essential Duties
- Operates and controls electric motors, pumps, and valves to regulate flow of raw water into treating plant.
- Dumps specified amounts of chemicals such as chlorine, ammonia, and lime into water, or adjusts automatic devices that admit specified amounts of chemicals into tanks to disinfect, deodorize, and clarify water.
- Mixes chemicals and allows impurities to settle to bottom of tank, turns valves to regulate water through filter beds to remove impurities, pumps purified water into water mains, monitors panel board and adjusts controls to regulator flow rates, loss of head pressure and water elevation and distribution of water.
- Cleans tanks and filter beds, using backwashing, repairs and lubricates machines and equipment, using hand- and power tools, tests water samples to determine acidity, color, and impurities.
- May operate portable water-purification plant to supply drinking water, and purify wastewater from plant preparatory to pumping water into rivers and streams or city mains.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Must have a minimum of two years experience in a similar role.
- Experience in similar plants and systems.
- Must possess or received through reciprocity a current/valid operator’s certificate equivalent to the highest water certification grade/class level issued by the Water Works Operators Certification Board of Examiners or from reciprocity from applicable state.
- Must have a valid, current driver's license.
- Regular exposure to extreme temperatures, wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes and airborne particles, loud noises, chemicals, etc.
- Physical demands include frequent standing, walking, reaching, and use of hands; regularly lifting and/or moving up to 25 lbs. and occasionally lifting and/or moving up to 50 lbs.
- Requires use of hand and power tools applicable to trade.
- Ability to maneuver a job site, including small spaces in around equipment
We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
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