Water Plant Operator Trainee, I, II or III (12- Hr Night Shift)

The Town of Hillsborough operates a 3 million gallon per day surface water treatment plant. With its raw water intake being directly from the Eno River, there are always monitoring and adjustments occurring depending on the river flow and quality making for a more interesting and challenging work environment!

This position performs technical and skilled work to operate and maintain the Town of Hillsborough’s water treatment plant in compliance with municipal regulatory requirements, maintain water quality and pressure, and provide safe drinking water to the Hillsborough community. 

This is a night shift position operating on a rotating 12-hour schedule that works three 12-hour shifts one week and four 12-hour shifts the following week. Shift hours are 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. and include Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and every other Saturday (plus holidays as needed). 

WHY EMPLOYEES VALUE THE NIGHT SHIFT

• Quieter work environment: fewer interruptions and less daytime foot traffic, which can make it easier to focus.
• Built-in overtime opportunity: because the schedule alternates, the four-shift week totals 48 hours, creating a predictable overtime opportunity every other week (consistent with town policy and FLSA requirements). 

This position may be filled at the Trainee, Operator I, Operator II, or Operator III level.

Job Duties

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The following duties are representative of this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Starts up and shuts down the water treatment plant.
• Operates and monitors the functioning of pumps, motors, valves, chemical feeders, and related equipment; recognizes and makes needed adjustments to equipment and or treatment process.
• Performs basic water plant maintenance and housekeeping; backwashes filters; fills chemical tanks and changes cylinders; drains and cleans sedimentation basins, troughs and flocculation basins; performs maintenance on chemical pumps, motors and piping; performs building and grounds maintenance.
• Performs skilled preventive maintenance and/or adjustments on equipment, including repacking pumps, greasing pumps, adjusting pumps, overhauling and changing oil in pumps and chemical feeders; performs maintenance and repairs on the plumbing and piping system; maintains and repairs the chemical feed piping system; fills chemical tanks; performs minor maintenance and repair on plant facilities.
• Collects and maintains accurate data; prepares and submits a variety of records, reports, charts, logs, etc.
• Gathers samples for lab analysis; performs laboratory quality control testing, such as chlorine residual, Ph, temperature, hardness, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, alkalinity, fluoride, and other  tests; performs water quality lab media in lab for use on water microbiological bacteria testing of samples; performs bench jar testing of raw water to optimize the plant's chemical dosage.
• Adds chemicals in accordance with prescribed standards; receives and properly stores chemical shipments.
• As the plant is manned 24/7 it serves as the 24-hour emergency call center for utilities.
• Receives calls from customers (sometimes irate) regarding water bills, water cut-offs, and broken lines; addresses after-hours complaints on nights, weekends, and holidays by dispatching proper personnel for water quality issues, line breaks, sewer spills, and pump station issues; records all received water/sewer service calls. 
• Reports concerns and failures and takes operational direction from the Operator in Responsible Charge.
• Participates in classroom and other training to ensure certification can be renewed and for increased learning.
• Maintains plant security on assigned shifts.
• Serves as an on-call operator.
• Performs other related duties as required

Operator II and III added duties:

• Help QA/QC log sheets and state reports.

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