Water Treatment Operator I / II

$24 - $38/Yr

City of Cedar Park (TX) - Cedar Park, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Cedar Park, TX

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

The Treatment Operator operates and maintains the City's water treatment facility, including performing tests on pumps, motors, and water, maintaining logs, and performing preventive and corrective maintenance on equipment.

Responsibilities

• Operates and maintains the city water treatment facilities as required by city, state, and federal guidelines.
• Performs routine tests on water treatment facility filters, treatment process, chemicals, pumps, motors, and water, and takes appropriate reading of gages and meters.
• Records plant telemetry information from satellite pumping stations, and maintains records of water treatment facility operations.
• Performs routine inspections of water treatment facilities, monitors, pumps, tanks, valves, appurtenances, chemicals, clarifiers and filters, visually and with computer system, and adjusts equipment and chemicals to maintain specified operating conditions.
• Performs various chemical analyses, including pH, alkalinity, chlorine, turbidity, fluorides, taste and odor control, and hardness tests, and ensures proper calibration of measuring feed equipment.
• Routine uses laboratory equipment.
• Routinely calibrates online monitoring analyzers.
• Calculates various daily, weekly, and monthly chemical usage and water statistics, and records data on logs and charts.
• Monitors distribution for the plant with the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) System.
• Ensures cleanliness of water facilities and cleans equipment as necessary.
• Performs corrective and preventive maintenance of water treatment equipment.
• Performs minor welding when necessary.
• Assists in preparing reports to state and federal regulatory agencies as required.
• Operates small boat to check and adjust the raw water intake.
• May operate mower, weed eater, and other grounds maintenance equipment.
• May operate backhoe and other heavy equipment.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or its equivalent.
• For Treatment Operator I: Two (2) years of experience in water treatment operations.
• For Treatment Operator II: Four (4) years of experience in water treatment operations.
• Valid Texas Driver's License applicable to job responsibilities, with an acceptable driving record.
• Class C Surface Water Certification from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for Treatment Operator I.
• Class B Surface Water Treatment License from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for Treatment Operator II.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with work order management systems (Lucity).
• Experience using the SCADA system.

Benefits

• Group medical, dental, life insurance and long-term disability programs.
• Retirement options provided by the Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS).
• Paid vacation time.
• Deferred compensation.
• Educational assistance.