Water Plant Superintendent

City of Coweta, OK; Oklahoma; On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Coweta, OK, oversees the daily operations of its water and wastewater facilities, ensuring safe treatment and accurate monitoring. Supervisors monitor SCADA, manage chemical inventories, and ensure regulatory compliance through meticulous data and lab work.

Minimum three years in water or wastewater operations with at least one year in a supervisory capacity are required, along with a high school diploma or GED.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years of experience as a water and/or wastewater plant operator.
• Minimum of one year of supervisory experience.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and direct daily activities of water and/or wastewater plant personnel.
• Review, interpret, and adjust based on water quality data.
• Maintain and update facilities data records.
• Enforce policies and handle personnel matters as needed.
• Maintain records for laboratory, maintenance, and plant logs; update facility data records.
• Undertake preventive and predictive maintenance of plant equipment.
• Analyze readings and lab results to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Calibrate testing and measuring equipment.
• Supervise collection of samples and perform tests to assure water quality.
• Submit samples for testing as needed.
• Respond to and manage emergency situations.
• Ensure proper sampling of raw and finished water to monitor quality.
• Take daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly samples to monitor regulatory compliance.
• Make adjustments to chemical feeds, plant operations and equipment to maintain water quality.
• Ensure maintenance to plant equipment, pumps, valves, and gauges is completed.
• Perform general housekeeping of plant buildings, reservoirs, and grounds.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Water/wastewater ops

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Job Summary

Supervises Plant Operators in the daily operations of the water and/or wastewater system plants; monitors and maintain treatment chemical inventory; monitors SCADA controls; ensures the completion of daily, weekly, and monthly monitor reports; monitors lab work; monitors all sampling for plant chemical feeds as well as ODEQ compliance; ensures plant and equipment are maintained.

Job Responsibilities True

• A. Plan, organize, and direct the daily activities of the water plant and/or wastewater plant personnel.
• B. Review, interpret, and make recommendations and adjustments based on water quality data.
• C. Maintain and update facilities data records.
• D. Review and enforce policies; handle employee matters and personnel issues as needed.
• E. Ensure that records are maintained for laboratory, maintenance, and plant logs and maintains and updates all other facilities data records.
• F. Undertake preventative and predictive maintenance of the equipment of the water plant, wastewater plant and related facilities.
• G. Analyze instrument readings, laboratory test results and operating records to assure that all federal and state water and wastewater regulations are followed, and all processes are being maintained; transport samples to laboratory as needed.
• H. Ensure proper calibration of all testing, analytical and measuring equipment.
• I. Supervise the collection of representative samples from the plants and performs chemical, physical, and bacteriological tests to assure water quality; submits samples for testing as needed.
• J. Respond to and manage emergency situations.
• K. Ensure that raw and finished water samples are taken as required to monitor water quality.
• L. Ensure that daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly samples are taken in the water/wastewater systems to monitor compliance with State and Federal regulations.
• M. Make adjustments to chemical feed rates, plant operations and equipment as needed to maintain water quality.
• N. Ensure that maintenance to plant equipment, pumps, valves, and gauges is completed.
• O. Ensure that general housekeeping duties of all plant buildings, reservoir, and plant grounds are completed.
• P. Perform other duties as assigned.

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Experience Required

Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a water and/or wastewater plant operator; minimum of one year of supervisory experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Minimum Education Requirements

Graduation from a high school or GED equivalent.

Primary Work Location

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Employee may be exposed to Bloodborne Pathogens. Hepatitis B Vaccination is available.