Environmental Operator

Environmental Operator

Supervisor’s Title: Team Leader

Department: Waste Water Treatment Plant

Rate: $24.06/hr+

Hours: Days Sunday-Wednesday 6AM-6PM (must have flexibility)

Job Summary

Performs work involved in the operation, maintenance, and analysis of the Waste Water Treatment Plant in accordance with discharge requirements. A WWTP operator also performs other duties as directed by leadership.

Essential Functions

• Take accurate readings from flow meters and other analytical equipment daily. Must also legibly log this data.
• Collect samples daily, reset samplers, and perform all lab analysis of samples accurately when assigned to the lab.
• Accurately transpose all data from tests into the computer and e-mail the daily zones report in a timely manner.
• Aids Team Leader in troubleshooting WWTP maintenance issues. Notify Leader of any significant equipment issues which you are unable to rectify yourself.
• Must safely run the wastewater equipment
• Must learn and safely run new equipment when necessary.
• Collect analysis wastewater samples daily
• Perform biogas equipment inspection and maintenance daily
• Responsible for the day to day WWTP operation including monitoring equipment and KPI’s
• Monitor alarms and communicating to management for the WWTP
• Assist in winterizing the WWTP each year.
• Safely receive incoming chemicals used for the operation of the WWTP.
• Learn and assist with other environmental requirements, to include NPDS, RCRA, DOT, and building audits.
• Complies with all applicable food safety regulations and mandates (Safe Quality Foods, Food and Drug Admin, Pasteurized Milk Ordinance)
• Collect samples to ship for analysis by an outside lab. Must fill out a Chain of Custody for those samples correctly.

Qualifications

• 1 to 2 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Must have the ability to obtain C3A WWTP Operator License, DOT and RCRA Waste Manifests and Classification
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, handle multiply projects simultaneously and delegate assignments to others.
• Comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.

Typical Environmental Conditions

• Will be exposed to loud noise levels (i.e., manufacturing equipment).
• Will be exposed to humidity, intense heat, and areas with possible air contamination, fumes, and toxic chemicals.
• Will be testing processed waste on a daily basis
• Will work in areas with mechanical moving parts, above ground with a risk of fall, or areas with risk of electrical shock.

Travel Requirements

Minimal travel <10% At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.