Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, and this Senior Wastewater Operations Travel Technician will be responsible for operating and maintaining wastewater plants at various locations around the country, assisting with new account startups, temporary operations, and covering existing facilities while local operators are out on PTO/sick time.
Requirements
- Operate and maintain wastewater plants to comply with discharge permit requirements and client expectations
- Provide direction and support to operators on other shifts, including delegation of tasks
- Conduct lab analysis of waste streams to verify treatment and make process changes
- Communicate frequently with Account Manager regarding operation and request assistance as needed
- Coordinate own travel plans to and from assigned facility
- Write or revise Standard Operating Procedures as necessary
- Analyze lab data to uncover potential treatment issues and implement process changes to prevent non-compliance
- Submit daily and/or weekly reports to client and Veolia management regarding current status of wastewater plant operations and needs of operations team
- Manage chemical inventories, spare parts inventory, and waste disposal activities
- Provide training and/or facilitate training of operators for all facets of operation/management of WWTP
- Perform all duties/tasks in compliance with site safety plan to ensure safety of all on-site personnel
- Coordinate and assist with major maintenance and preventive maintenance activities
- Complete minor reactive and preventative maintenance activities to ensure smooth process operations at all times
- Optimize operation of wastewater treatment plant
- Lead by example through hard work, attention to detail, respectful and consistent treatment of each member of team
- Assist Veolia Management with training and development of operators
- Provide direction to team on daily operation and maintenance of wastewater plant to ensure compliance
- Communicate with Veolia Management, or Client Management regarding current status of operation, including compliance, treatment issues, maintenance, and personnel issues
- Make process changes based on lab data and general process knowledge to correct compliance issues or improve treatment process
- Evaluate maintenance projects and determine what outside support is needed and then coordinate and schedule with client maintenance teams or contractors
- Issues and concerns of significant matter should be discussed with Account Manager to ensure actions taken are reasonable and in compliance with contract
- Ability to develop creative and innovative process improvements ideas related to operation/management of WWTF
- Independent scheduling of work load
- Participates in group meetings or discussions
- Conducts meetings and leads group discussions
- Communicates routinely with Veolia management
