Job Description

Water Treatment Operator

Position Summary: Performs skilled operation, routine monitoring, and maintenance of the water treatment plant to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant production; independently executes standard tasks and responds to changing conditions in accordance with established protocols and regulatory requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operate and monitor treatment processes coagulation/flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, and chemical feed via SCADA and field checks.
• Perform jar tests and routine lab analyses; record results and make operational adjustments within defined parameters or in consultation with supervisors.
• Inspect equipment and perform routine maintenance; initiate/assist corrective maintenance and document work in CMMS.
• Maintain complete, accurate records including operator logs and MOR inputs.
• Respond to alarms and participate in the after-hours call-out rotation.
• Follow all safety and security procedures, including chemical handling, chlorine safety, and facility security.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Working knowledge of surface water treatment processes, regulatory requirements, and basic mechanical systems.
• Accurate documentation and data entry with strong attention to detail.
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving under time constraints.
• Effective communication with peers, supervisors, and other departments.
• Consistent adherence to SOPs and safety requirements.

Required Minimum Qualifications:

• Valid NC Grade C Surface Water Treatment Operator License, or the ability to obtain within 12 months of employment.
• High school diploma or GED required; advanced technical coursework preferred.
• 1-2 years water treatment/industrial operations preferred.

Work Environment:

Work is primarily performed in a treatment plant setting with periodic field duties and office-based reporting. Must be available for various shifts and emergency response including nights, weekends, and holidays. This facility is operational 24/365.

Involvement with Data, People, and Things:

Requires summarizing, tabulating, or formatting data or information in accordance with a prescribed schema or plan to facilitate the identification and extraction of useful information. Requires speaking or signaling to people to convey or exchange information of a general nature. Requires leading, operating or repairing complex machinery or equipment that requires extended training and experience, such as water/wastewater plant equipment, or the application of complex software or systems; may involve installation and testing. Involves operations of limited scope.

Cognitive Requirements:

Requires performing skilled work involving rules/systems with almost constant problem-solving. Requires using addition and subtraction, multiplication, and division, and/or calculating ratios, rates and percentages. Requires reading routine sentences, instructions, regulations, procedures, or work orders; writing routine sentences and completing routine job forms and incident reports; speaking routine sentences using proper grammar.

Mental Requirements:

Requires doing clerical, manual, or technical tasks prescribed by standard practices, but which may require computation, the use of several procedures, and the use of independent judgments with obvious choices; requires normal attention for accurate results.

Physical and Dexterity Requirements:

Must lift and carry up to 50 lbs., climb stairs, and access equipment platforms.

Environmental Hazards:

The job may risk exposure to bright/dim light, dusts and pollen, extreme heat and/or cold, wet or humid conditions, extreme noise levels, vibration, fumes and/or noxious odors, moving machinery, electrical shock, heights, toxic/caustic chemicals, disease/pathogens, confined spaces. The job requires normal visual acuity, depth perception and field of vision, hearing and speaking abilities, color perception, odor perception.

Judgments and Decisions:

Requires very few decisions affecting only the individual; works in a very stable environment with clear and uncomplicated written/oral instructions.

ADA Compliance:

The Town of Waynesville is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires the Town to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

Applications will be accepted until filled.

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