WATER TREATMENT PLANT OPERATOR

San Benito PD; Penryn; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

San Benito PD is seeking a Water Treatment Plant Operator to monitor and operate treatment equipment around the clock, ensuring safe potable and industrial water supply. You will adjust chemical dosages, log process data, and respond to process fluctuations under supervision of the Lead Operator.

The role requires a High School diploma or GED, a Texas driver’s license, and eventual TCEQ licensure. Candidates must be able to lift up to 50 pounds and work varied shifts in a 24/7 facility.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Ability to write routine reports and basic math operations.
• Ability to follow written or spoken instructions.

Responsibilities

• Operates water treatment plant equipment to purify and clarify water.
• Performs routine lab analyses (turbidity, pH, hardness, chlorine) and records data.
• Maintains system pressure and storage tanks; collects samples for state lab.
• Keeps chemical inventory and orders supplies; adheres to safety standards.

Skills

Report writing

Numerical ability

Reading comprehension

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

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Job Title: WATER TREATMENT PLANT OPERATOR

Positions Available: One (1)

Salary: $15.50 per hour

General Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Water Treatment Plant Lead Operator the Water Treatment Plant Operator controls treatment plant machines and equipment to purify and clarify water for human consumption and for industrial use by performing the following duties. The Water Treatment Plant is a 24 (twenty-four) hour 7 (seven) day per week operation facility and requires the following duties.

Duties Include, But Not Limited To, The Following:

• Protects the public health.
• Runs process control on incoming raw water.
• Sets dosages on chemicals and disinfectants using chemical feed pumps and chlorinators.
• Adjust incoming raw water flow according to the demand of the system.
• Record untreated water use in production and does basic water lab analysis such as turbidity, Ph, hardness, chlorides, alkalinity, total organic compounds, total dissolved solids, and chlorine residuals.
• Store clean treated water in ground storage tanks ready for distribution.
• Backwash filters to remove settle solids accumulated on filter bed.
• Remove sludge from treatment units and disposes.
• Maintain system pressure, monitor elevated water storage tanks.
• Does mechanical, electrical and instrumentation on treatment units.
• Collects water distribution samples, submit to state lab.
• Keeps chemical inventory and orders when needed.
• Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual record keeping.
• Handles customer complaints.
• Perform work in accordance with all federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations and within mandated and appropriate safety standards.
• Maintain and promote excellent relations and communications with co-workers. This includes sharing the workload to maintain balance. This may include helping to train and orient new employees in acquiring skills in department policies and procedures, and department functions.
• Perform all duties in accordance with all City of San Benito safety policies and other applicable state or federal regulations.

Desired Minimum Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED, ability to write routine reports and correspondence, ability to add and subtract, ability of apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Current Texas Driver’s license.
• Must have or be able to obtain TCEQ license within one (1) year of employment if not currently licensed. This position will require additional certifications as required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
• Membrane filtration experience preferred.
• Ability to read, follow directions and complete basic reports.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to add and subtract and use calculator.
• Ability of apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables on standardized situations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this include close vision.
• The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Ability to work flexible hours, to include, various work shifts to meet the demands of the operations of the Water Plant.

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required and the scope of responsibility. It should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods or otherwise to balance the workload.

This position of employment requires satisfactory job performance of six month probation from starting date. This position requires State of Texas (TCEQ) licensing.

This employee must pass all licensing requirements to successfully complete his/her employment expectations.

Category City Jobs Status Open Posted September 14, 2026 8:00 AM Closing Open Until Filled