SUPERVISING WATER TREATMENT PLANT OPERATOR
Supervising Water Treatment Plant Operator is a competitive local-government title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
What it takes is 3 years of relevant experience.
How to apply
This title is filled by competitive examination.
See every real route in, and where to apply. We don't track live vacancies.
See where to apply for this title →Where this title is used
Supervising Water Treatment Plant Operator is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
Check whether an employer is a civil service jurisdiction · How local civil service works
Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under direction, supervises and works with a group of employees engaged in the operation, adjustment, regulation, and maintenance of plant machines and equipment; does other related duties.
Examples of work
- Supervises and works with a group of operators involved in operating, adjusting, and regulating water treatment plant pumps, valves, and other equipment.
- Supervises the activities of employees.
- Issues work assignments.
- Enforces safety regulations.
- Trains new employees and makes recommendations regarding appointments, promotions, reassignments, transfers, disciplinary actions, or other personnel transactions.
- Makes recommendations for changes in procedures.
- Supervises and works with other employees in the filtration process, sludge processing, pumping stations, flocculation and sedimentation, adjustment of chemical feed equipment, routine water testing, and other operations related to the water treatment purification plant.
- Starts, stops, and controls electric motors, pumps, valves, and generators to regulate flow of raw water into treating plant.
- Controls filters and agitators.
- Dumps specified amounts of chemicals into water or adjust automatic devices that admit specified amounts of chemicals into tanks.
- Monitors panelboard and adjusts controls to regulate flow rates, loss of head pressure, and water elevation and distribution of water.
- May supervise and/or perform tasks related to cleaning of tanks and filter beds, using backwash.
- May perform minor repairs and lubricate machines and equipment, using hand tools and power tools.
- Test water samples from varied locations to determine concentration impurities, using colorimeter, turbidimeter, and conductivity meter.
- Makes routine bacteriological analysis of water to determine water purity and to meet state and local health laws.
- May record data, such as residual content or chemicals, water turbidity, water pressure, and varied meter and gauge readings.
- Evaluates logs/reports from operators.
- Inspects work areas to determine material and equipment needs.
- Prepares suitable reports.
- Keeps records and files.
- Reviews performance of employees and determines assignments.
- Supervises and leads the activities of employees to attain optimum results in terms of costs, quality, and morale of a group.
- Provides instruction and development opportunities for personnel, communicating agency policies, and other pertinent information as appropriate.
- Maintains standards of job performance for subordinates, and requires good performance.
- Takes appropriate action when employees excel, meet, or fall below work performance standards.
- Handles personal relationship with employees - interviewing, transferring, disciplining, etc.
- Carries out agency policies and programs as they apply to a unit, and performs special assignments as given by a superior, preparing reports with recommendations as appropriate.
- May also operate primary pumping equipment in order to transfer raw water to treatment plant or to distribute treated water to residential, commercial, or industrial establishments.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
Three (3) years of experience in operating, adjusting, regulating, repairing and maintaining electric motors, pumps, valves, and other electrical and mechanical equipment used in a water treatment plant or pumping station or filtration plant.
License
Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle rather than employee mobility is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
Appointees may be required to possess a valid Public Water Treatment Operator license of the appropriate class depending on the permit level of the facility, issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the problems, procedures, and methods used in adjustment, operation, and maintenance of water treatment plant equipment and machinery.
- Knowledge of the varied equipment, materials, and supplies used in these processes.
- Knowledge of the safety precautions to be observed.
- Knowledge of supervisory techniques.
- Ability to apply technical training.
- Ability to communicate technical knowledge to persons supervised.
- Ability to work along with subordinates in difficult phases of job.
- Ability to follow established procedures, standards, and specifications.
- Ability to determine work to be accomplished.
- Ability to issue assignments, and to train and evaluate subordinate personnel.
- Ability to safeguard and store needed equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.
Appointees in Municipal Water Utilities Authority may be required to attend Incident Management training within a specified timeframe as determined by the appointing authority.
Such training may include but not be limited to: ICS-700 NIMS, An Introduction ICS-100 Introduction to ICS or equivalent ICS-200 Basic ICS or equivalent