Wastewater Collection/Treatment ORC

Eaton Public Works Department
Escape the hustle and bustle of the city and become part of something truly special in our beautiful town on the northern plains of Colorado. Enjoy the picturesque surroundings, from the sprawling farmland to the nearby bike trails and Pawnee Grasslands. 

Join us in Eaton, where your passion for helping others meets a community that feels like family. 

This position is with the Eaton Public Works Department.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The Wastewater Operator in Responsible Charged (ORC) position is responsible for planning, coordinating, supervising, and reviewing the activities involved in the operation, maintenance, and capital planning of the Town’s wastewater treatment facility and wastewater collection system.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

•Leads staff and performs a variety of construction, maintenance, repair, testing, and reporting assignments common to wastewater treatment and collection.
•Ensures adequate planning for the division to provide proper and efficient operations, and comply with government agency regulations, anticipate growth and for ongoing cost effectiveness.  
•Interprets data and makes corrections in the plant’s operations to maintain discharge standards set by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Environmental Protection Agency.
•Ensures the preliminary treatment, secondary treatment (activated sludge), ultraviolet light for disinfection, sludge thickening, and water reclamation processes comply with Town, State and Federal requirements.
•Ensures that operational control tests to check overall plant efficiency are used to maintain discharge regulations in compliance with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Environmental Protection Agency.
•Provides professional advice on issues.  Makes recommendations to the Public Works Director to ensure proper and efficient operation of the division. 
•Assists in the preparation of the annual divisional budget. Assists in forecasting the necessary funds for materials, supplies, and capital improvement projects.  Submits budget recommendations and justifications. Monitors controls and approves expenditures within established guidelines.
•Develops and implements policies, procedures, and standards for efficient and effective operation and maintenance of operations.  
•Coordinates activities of the division with those of other Town divisions and departments. 
•Inspects buildings, grounds, and equipment for conformance to safety standards and security requirements. Identifies problem areas within system and implements actions to correct problem areas.  Ensures problems are reported to management and corrected in a timely and effective manner.
•Responds to inquiries, complaints, and requests for information from residents, employees, and other agencies.  Escalates matters to supervisor when appropriate.
•Reviews plans and specifications for contract work and inspections performed to meet compliance standards.
•Participates in Public Works on-call rotation and in Town snow removal when required.
•Performs other duties as required and necessary to ensure the success of the organization.

SUPERVISION
•Directly manages the Wastewater Operator in accordance with the Town's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees, planning, assigning and directing work including goal and direction setting, coaching, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems.  




KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITY 
•Ability to consistently promote, work, and act in a manner that supports the Town’s vision, mission and values. 
•Demonstrates thorough understanding of all current wastewater regulations, as well as discharge permit requirements of Eaton’s Wastewater Treatment Facility.
•Knowledge of the methods, equipment, materials, and practices used in the construction, maintenance, and repair of wastewater collection systems.
•Knowledge of safety practices and standards related to the operation of wastewater collection and confined spaces.
•Knowledge of the principles and practices of management including organizational development, budgeting, employee supervision, and training.
•Skill in developing, monitoring and maintaining division budgets.
•Ability to supervise, direct and train employees.
•Ability to interpret, explain and enforce department and safety policies and procedures.
•Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with  Town employees, management, other agencies, and the general public.
•Ability to analyze problems, identify alternative solutions, project consequences of proposed actions, and implement recommendations in support of goals.
•Ability to interpret, understand, and comply with complex statutes, ordinances, 
•Ability to interpret, understand, and comply with complex statutes, ordinances, regulations, standards, and laws.


Education
•High School Diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) equivalent is required.  
•Completion of College coursework or degree in watershed science, environmental science, biology, chemistry, or closely related field of study is preferred.

Experience
•Three (3) years of experience in wastewater treatment and/or wastewater collections operations is required.  
•Experience in activated sludge type treatment system is preferred.
•An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be substituted on a year for year basis.  There is no substitute for the required licenses and certifications.


Additional Requirements/License/Certifications
•Possession of State of Colorado Class B Wastewater Plant Operator’s and Level II Wastewater Collection’s Certifications/Licenses are required.  
•Must have reliable transportation.
•Must possess a valid driver’s license. 
•Must successfully pass a driving record (MVR), references, drug screen and a criminal history background check prior to the start of employment.   
•Must be able to provide documentation that proves eligibility to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Material and Equipment used 
May operate and maintain equipment including, but not limited to, standing or sitting lawn mowers, pickups, trimmers, front end loaders, utility trailers, air compressors, jack hammers, compactors, power tools, shovels, and hand tools.
Working Environment, Physical and Mental Characteristics 
The work environment and physical and mental characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Locations:
•May be required to conduct business in a field, office or laboratory environment.  
•Is subject to driving Town vehicle in all weather conditions.
Hours:
•Regular working hours for this position are Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and outside of regular work hours as necessary including after hour emergency or weather-related events.  
•May be required to work long hours, early mornings, overtime, holidays, evenings, nighttime, shifts, or weekends.
•Subject to call-back work and incumbent must be able to respond to an emergency.
Mental Requirements/concentration:
•May have frequent interruptions; be required to manage competing priorities; and have inflexible deadlines.
•Frequent contact with the public either in person, via email or telephone, sometimes facing adverse or confrontational situations with internal/external customers. 
•Work requires administrative and technical knowledge and ability. 
Outdoor and Indoor Exposure
•Frequent outdoor work in extreme weather conditions (hot/cold); 
•Employee is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles/traffic, electrical current, work on scaffolding/high places, vaults, rough terrain, unsanitary, slippery surfaces with exposure to high heat and/or noise.
•Town of Eaton provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) may be required at times such as cold weather gear, boots, eye and hearing protection, gloves, and safety vest.
•Employee is subject to atmospheric condition such as those affecting the respiratory system: airborne particles/pathogens, fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
Talking/Hearing/Vision/
•While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk or hear in the normal audio range to hear alarms/telephones/normal speaking voices, with or without correction. 
•The employee may be subject to continuous or infrequent high pitched or continuous noise from machinery/equipment that may be sufficient to cause the worker to shout above the surrounding noise level to be heard.
•The employee is required to have visual acuity for close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus and to perform an activity such as: operating machinery where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach and to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment; and to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures for inspection purposes.
Other Physical Conditions
•Regular and long-term exposure to extreme conditions such as hot/cold; sharp hazards; dust/fumes/gasses; electrical shock; moving mechanical parts possibility of contact with odorous, infectious/obnoxious material. 
•Moderate to considerable physical effort that includes working from ladders, frequent use of light or medium weight objects (e.g., 25-50 lbs.) and use of medium weight tools; employee will perform manual labor, such as lifting manhole covers and grates weighing up to 100 lbs.; walking on uneven ground or river and ditch banks retrieving water samples or climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach while operating in the field or storm system; entering/exiting manholes or vaults; walking near or across rivers and ditches; working in all weather conditions at times of excessive temperatures of heat and extreme cold, working in or near moving traffic with appropriate traffic control set up.
•Expertise in conducting laboratory tests using good manual dexterity.
•Frequent balancing, bending/stooping, carrying/lifting, climbing, fingering, grasping, repetitive motion, sitting, standing, and walking. Occasionally the employee will be required to pull, push, reach, feel temperature, and kneel. 

Note: This position description is not intended to be an exclusive list of all of the requirements, duties, tasks, roles or responsibilities associated with the position. Nothing in this position description restricts the Town’s ability to assign, reassign or eliminate duties and responsibilities of this job at any time. The Town is an “at will” employer, and Town employees may be separated from employment at any time and at the discretion of management.

Benefits: The Town offers an excellent benefits package covering the employee including full health, dental, Gap insurance, long-term disability and life insurances; and retirement contribution packages.  Generous vacation and sick leave policies.

We also offer supplemental benefits to include vision, accident, cancer, additional whole and term life insurances and flexible spending account (FSA).  Additional 457(b) options. Employer will match 50% of employee contributions to the optional 457(b) plan, up to 1% of the employee's compensation.

The Town of Eaton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for positions for which they have applied without regard to gender (regardless of gender identity or gender expression), race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture, length and/or protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, national origin ancestry, age 40 or older, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, pregnancy, or other characteristics protected by law. 

The Town of Eaton will make all reasonable accommodations to ensure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity in employment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. If you require reasonable accommodations to ensure a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to cpshr@eatonco.org. 

Notice Regarding Medical and/or Recreational Marijuana Use: Because the possession and use of marijuana whether for medical use or otherwise, constitutes a federal offense and because the Town is a drug free workplace, the Town will not accommodate the medical use of marijuana and enforces written policy prohibiting working for the Town while marijuana is in the body. The fact that state law recognizes medical marijuana as a prescribed or otherwise permitted, medication does not alter or otherwise change this policy.

Salary : $30 - $42