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Description
This position is a full-time, Fair Labor Standards Act overtime eligible, non-exempt position. Attendance at evening meetings or other off-duty events is not anticipated. The incumbent in this position is not a Civil Service employee. This position is eligible for representation through the International Union of Operating Engineers.
General Purpose:
Under general direction, monitors wastewater discharges from local business and industry through sampling and flow measurement, inspects industrial sites for compliance with state, federal, and local environmental regulations. Monitors flow conditions in sanitary, industrial and storm sewer systems.
Supervision Received:
This position reports to an Associate Engineer.
Supervision Exercised:
This position does not supervise.
Examples of Duties
The job duties and responsibilities represented in this job description in no way imply that these are the only duties to be performed. Employees occupying the position will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by a supervisor. While requirements may be representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and abilities to perform this job successfully, the employee will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Develops, tracks and implements pre-treatment agreements;
- Performs on-site industrial waste inspection and reporting;
- Provides technical support to customers and industrial wastewater treatment facilities;
- Performs specialized field analysis on a routine basis throughout the wastewater, storm water and collection systems;
- Develops, implements, and maintains schedules, reports, and pretreatment records;
- Identifies non-compliance issues with customers and communicates such issues to appropriate entities;
- Uses and maintains pH, chlorine colorimeter and dissolved oxygen meters, samplers, and flow meters to monitor industrial users and wastewater collection system;
- Operates and maintains sampling equipment (samplers, flow meters, computers, etc);
- Inspect grease traps, grease interceptors and inspect oil water separators throughout the city;
- Maintain city records and databases of inspections and customer maintenance records;
- Participate in the development of city wide categorical grouping of industrial customers or other strength based grouping system to identify industry waste loads of all classes of customers;
- Work with consultants in developing industrial strength based sewer rate based billing system to meet State of Washington requirements;
- Meet and maintain requirements of State of Washington Department of Ecology, and EPA of the Sumner's Industrial Pretreatment Program;
- Recommend program changes;
- Provide field responses to source control complaints, issues or concerns for new and redeveloped work being done under City permit requirements. Follow-up with documentation including escalated enforcement actions.
- Participate in assessment for Annual Industrial User Survey per City NPDES Permit;
- Identify, inspect and monitor all industrial customers, warehouses, facilities for compliance
- Perform and/or oversee sampling and sampling records of commercial and industrial users;
- Maintain Chain of Custody Records of all field sampling;
- Assure all commercial, industrial and residential users are charged the appropriate user charge for their waste discharge;
- Provide BMPs including city educational handouts to commercial and industrial customers;
- Investigate the source or sources of toxic or non-compatible discharges to the wastewater system;
- Issue waste discharge permits, monitor industries to assure compliance and follow-up non-compliance;
- Review commercial plans, engineering reports, proposed plans and specifications for wastewater treatment and oil removal systems; make recommendations as appropriate;
- Participates in special projects as required;
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Typical Qualifications
Necessary Minimum Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree preferred.
- Five (5) years as a Source Control Representative, pre-treatment experience or equivalent experience preferred.
- Or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that will provide the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
Necessary Special Requirements:
- Must hold a Washington State driver's license with driving record free from serious or frequent violations at time of appointment;
- Must obtain a 24-hour HAZWOPER certificate prior to completion of probation and maintain it thereafter;
- Must possess or obtain a Basic First Aid/CPR Certificate;
- Flagging and Traffic Card;
- WWCPA Wastewater Collection Specialist I (WWC-I) Certification Level 1 or a WWOP Certification Level 1 or satisfactory completion of a City approved Pretreatment course within six (6) months of employment as a requirement of the probationary period;
- Must attain successful completion of training requirements prescribed by the Department.
Desired Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, codes and regulations related to assigned activities.
- Modern office practices, methods, procedures and equipment.
- Record-keeping principles, procedures, and techniques.
- Applicable health and safety policy, procedures and practices.
- Basic wastewater treatment and collection practices and procedures.
Ability to:
- Use meters and samplers appropriate to assigned tasks;
- Read collection system prints;
- Follow oral and written instructions;
- Follow health and safety regulations;
- Observe legal and defensive driving practices;
- Communicate effectively both orally and in writing; comprehend and use English effectively including producing all forms of communications in a clear, concise and understandable manner to intended audiences;
- Organize and prioritize a variety of projects and multiple tasks in an effective and timely manner; work independently with little or no direction, set priorities and meet deadlines;
- Use tact, initiative, prudence and independent judgment within general policy and procedural guidelines;
- Establish, maintain and foster positive and effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work;
- Operate a variety of modern office equipment and personal computers in a windows based computing environment, using standard or customized software application programs appropriate to assigned tasks;
- Provides continuous effort to improve operations and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality customer service.
Supplemental Information
Selection Guidelines:
Formal application, rating of education and experience, oral interview and reference check; job-related tests may be required.
Background checks will include:
Social Security Verification: validates the applicant's Social Security number, date of birth and former addresses.
Prior Employment Verification: confirms applicant's employment with the listed companies, including dates of employment, position held and additional information available pertaining to performance rating, reason for departure and eligibility for rehire. This verification will be run on the past three employers or the previous five years, whichever comes first.
Personal and Professional References: calls will be placed to individuals listed as references by the applicant.
Educational Verification: confirms the applicant's claimed educational institution, including the years attended and the degree/diploma received.
Criminal History: includes review of criminal convictions and probation. The following factors will be considered for applicants with a criminal history:
The nature of the crime and its relationship to the position.
The time since the conviction.
The number (if more than one) of convictions.
Whether hiring, transferring or promoting the applicant would pose an unreasonable risk to the business, its employees or its customers and vendors.
The following additional background searches will be required if applicable to the position:
Motor Vehicle Records: provides a report on an individual's driving history in the state requested. This search will be run when driving is an essential requirement of the position.
Credit History: confirms candidate's credit history. This search will be run for positions that involve management of City of Sumner funds and/or handling of cash or credit cards.
The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.
Communication from the City of Sumner:
We primarily communicate via e-mail during the application process. E-mails from sumnerwa.gov and/or governmentjobs.com should be placed on your safe domain list to ensure you receive notifications in a timely manner. As a precaution, you may also want to check your junk e-mail folders.
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