Operator I

**Company Description** About Veolia North America**

**Job Description** Pay Rate**: $34.79 per hour.

**BENEFITS**

Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.

**Position Purpose**:
Operates and maintains water treatment, processing, distribution, installation and testing equipment in water distribution and treatment system and facility and to purify water to meet permit and operational requirements.

**Primary Duties/Responsibilities**:

- Performs manual labor including filling and emptying of machine bins and cleaning equipment, installing lines and meters, work in facilities and grounds as required.
- Performs minor maintenance including, but not limited to, routine preventive maintenance, lubrication, and minor adjustments.
- Operates vehicles for plant operational and system maintenance purposes.
- Practices good housekeeping in assigned area and properly disposes of waste according to safety and environmental policies.
- Monitors flow meters, gauges, flow ratios, pressures and related controls through instrument panels, computer terminals and programmable logic control units in assigned area.
- Monitors and records operating conditions observations and data in area shift log.
- Ensures conformance to process specifications.
- Diagnoses basic operational problems and takes corrective action per procedure.
- Verifies and reports suspected malfunctions and variances to supervisor and takes corrective actions.
- Performs routine and preventative maintenance and maintenance related items as assigned.
- Tends automatic and semi-automatic machines and related equipment including pumps, engines, generators, valves, gates, mixers, conveyors, blowers, chemical feed, and vacuum filters used to decontaminate water by settling aeration and filtration.
- Monitors control panels and adjusts valves and gates manually or by remote control to regulate flow.
- Performs field tests (chemical, physical and biological) in order to pace chemical dosages for process control units or alter unit processes.
- Samples water according to schedule.
- Prepares chemical solutions and services automatic samplers.
- Monitors process chemical supplies and recommends reorder.
- Performs routine lab tests.
- Performs routine instrument calibration for portable meters including, but not limited to, dissolved oxygen, pH, percent oxygen, lower explosive limit.
- Assists in other areas of plant as needed.
- Performs a variety of manual functions.
- Follows established procedures to perform standardized or routine tasks.
- Must follow established operational, process control, compliance and safety and emergency response procedures.
- Must adhere to specifications and schedule.
- May suggest process improvements.
- Uses initiative in carrying out recurring assignments. Waits for directions for next steps or assignments outside of routine.
- Keeps supervisor informed of problems.

**Work Environment**:

- Spends 100% of time in operations environment.
- May need to work outside in inclement weather conditions and drive company vehicle to perform duties.
- _ Possible Work Hazards_: May be exposed to possible operations hazards including fumes, toxic and caustic chemicals, heavy machinery, high pressure, hot or cold work environment temperatures, slippery surfaces, water hazards and electrical equipment.

**Qualifications** Education/Experience/Background**:

- High School Diploma/GED required.
- Must have the ability to read, write and comprehend English (operational, process, safety, and quality instructions).
- Must have the ability to perform basic mathematical calculations.
- One to two years of experience in a related position and environment with knowledge of the methods, techniques, and practices of water treatment and distribution.

**Knowledge/Skills/Abilities**:

- Must consistently demonstrate the ability to learn and independently operate assigned machines and equipment meeting or exceeding processing and quality targets.
- Must demonstrate ability to learn and independently operate equipment such as pumps, engines, centrifuge, generators, valves, gates, mixers, conveyors, blowers, dryers, chemical feed, odor control, disinfection equipment, sludge processing filters, belt presses and measuring/control devices, testing equipment and material handling equipment.
- Must demonstrate a working ability to use computer programs for process control.
- Must demonstrate ability to work in a team environment and willingness to assume additional or new responsibilities readily.
- Must be able to serve rotational 24-hour emergency on-call if required by site.

**Required Certification/Licenses/Training**:

- Employee Orientation, Departmental