Rate of Pay: $46.53-$56.97 per hour (D.O.E.)

JOB SUMMARY:

The Water Treatment Supervisor provides supervisory and professional water treatment plant oversight in treating high quality drinking and stream water and ensuring compliance with associated Utah Division of Drinking Water requirements and Spiro and Judge Mine Tunnel Utah Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits with the main objective of protecting public health and the natural environment. Each Supervisor is responsible for operations and maintenance of up to two surface water and mine tunnel treatment plants and related water sources and the plants’ process control SCADA and instrumentation systems including staffing, training, directing operations and maintenance. Failure to comply with these regulations can result in direct risk to public health and aquatic life, severe financial penalties, public notification, notices of violations, illness, injury and/or death.

TYPICAL DUTIES:

• Each Supervisor 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.
• Ensures 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.
• Coordinates operations with neighboring utilities and raw water users. 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. Must have master level system knowledge to make independent operational decisions.
• All other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALFICATIONS:

• 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.
• Valid State CDL License.
• Within 60-minute travel time from home while on-call and for emergency response.

PREFERRED QUALFICATIONS:

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

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• The employee must frequently lift and/or more up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds to be able to maintain equipment.
• This position requires a frequent amount of physical activity to climb in and out of vaults, confined spaces, and equipment; must be able to work within mine tunnel entrances.
• The employee is frequently required to observe details at close range in order to operate SCADA and maintain equipment.

• Work is performed primarily in an office, treatment plants, vehicles, and outdoor settings, in all weather conditions including extreme temperatures.
• Wears protective personal protective gear such as face shields, safety glasses, chemical protective gear, gloves, respirators, hearing protection, wet gear, rubber steel toed boots, etc.
• Frequently works near moving mechanical parts; in high, precarious places, is routinely exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes, airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals.

• Exposure to stressful situations while troubleshooting technical operations to ensure high quality drinking water and stream water and compliance with Utah DDW and DWQ requirements.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high.

• May require small amounts of travel to and from meetings, trainings, and conferences.

• Rotating on-call working hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays; required to share response to emergencies 24/7/365 related to the public water system.