Job Description
Job Description
Responsible for the operation and maintenance of Water collection, pumping, filtration, treatment, chemical feed, instrumentation and controls systems located at:
► Lake Station Water Collection & Treatment Plant located at Edgemere Drive
► High Purity Water Generation Plant located at Building 61
► Various Industrial Water, Fire-main & High Purity Water system components across the Eastman Business Park.
Essential Duties:
► Maintain Clear and Consistent Communication relating to the current status, performance and needs of your assigned location with RED-Rochester team supervisor, maintenance planner and operations staff. Ensure all RED-Rochester customer communicated concerns are immediately communicated and appropriately responded to.
► Perform Laboratory Testing of water samples, as required, ensuring that appropriate Recordkeeping requirements are met (such as reportable items for NYSDOH, DEC, EPA or Others) and provided to the RED-Rochester Water (NY State Department of Health Grade 1A Operator certified) Champion.
► Evaluate operation and provide corrective adjustment to chemical feed or filtration systems.
► Perform Calibration and Maintenance on specialized water quality instrumentation, as needed for assigned equipment or systems.
► Assists Maintenance Planner to develop standard preventive maintenance routines to ensure maximum equipment uptime and lifespan is attained for all responsible systems.
► Assists Maintenance Planner to develop corrective (repair) maintenance job plans as needed to ensure all equipment repairs are completed in a timely basis to maintain all system redundancies for optimum emergency performance.
► Coordinates with Maintenance Planner, all shutdown planning (routine & emergency) for the execution of maintenance activities to include Customer end-user notifications.
► Complete all planned maintenance routines for assigned locations, documenting all actions within the RED-Rochester work order management system (MAXIMO®).
► Complete all assigned corrective maintenance actions, documenting all actions within the RED-Rochester work order management system (MAXIMO®).
► Assist with any Plant Overhaul, Upgrade or Modernization Activities being completed within assigned locations.
► Supervise any outside Contractor executing work within your assigned work location to ensure compliance with RED-Rochester safety policies and that the RED-Rochester standards for workmanship are maintained.
► Daily Operations and Data Management for assigned plants utilizing RED-Rochester Plant Logical Control (PLC) or Distributed Control System (DCS) Systems or Data Management Software (Emerson Ovation® , Wonderware®, PI®, Provox®, Delta-V® or others.)
► Assist in the development and implementation of Health, Safety and Environmental Plans related to assigned locations.
► Provide Operations department specific training for monitoring and emergency response for assigned areas of responsibilities.
► Oversee Chemical (Chlorine, coagulant, or bisulfite) Consumable and Repair Part inventory for area of responsibilities.
► Work, as needed within the larger team structure for Red-Rochester major emergencies or catastrophic failures.
Equipment Competencies, but not limited to:
► Heat exchangers, surge suppressors, vacuum breakers, air compressors, air dryers, valves, coagulant & chlorine pumps, high and low lift pumps
► Turbidity Meters, Chlorine Analyzers, conductivity meters and other specialized instrumentation
► Rapid sand filtration, Brine tanks, Resin systems, RO, Water softeners, UV Sterilizers, membrane or media filtration systems.
► Lake Intake, sludge collection & backwash systems
Soft skills Competencies:
► Excellent and Clear Communication skills
► Demonstrated ability to work independently or within a team environment.
► Demonstrated Mechanical aptitude and abilities
► Demonstrated Electrical aptitude and abilities
► Demonstrated conceptual and practical trouble shooting skills
► Ability to follow procedures, work instructions and safety/environmental regulations
Education and/or Experience:
► High school diploma/GED
► 5 years of applicable water treatment or high purity water generation experience.
► Applicable Associates or Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required.
Qualifications or Licenses:
► Must obtain the NYS DOH Grade-D certification for chemical treatment within 12 months
► Must work towards the NYS DOH Grade 1A Operators Certification (up to 10 years)
► Must obtain required safety operator licenses, as needed for fork truck, man lift and scissor lift within 12 months (Employer Provided)
► Immediately obtain OSHA 10hr certification.
► Must obtain OSHA 30hr certification within 12 months.
► Must obtain OSHA HAZWOPER 40hr certification within 3 months.
► Must have an unencumbered valid NYS drivers’ license
► May obtain the Rochester city S-3 Operating license within a 12 month period.
Work Environment
► Industrial environment.
► Working outside in all weather conditions from street level to roof tops.
► Working inside in extreme conditions from basements to rooftops and above including inspections of cooling towers.
► Possibility of temperatures ranging from extreme cold to over 100 degrees.
► Work will take place in chemical areas, noisy areas and areas that may be very dirty. Also will be operating heavy-duty machinery and vehicles including, Boomlifts (Manlifts), scissors lifts, fork trucks and power-walkie trucks.
Physical Demands
► Position requires strenuous effort, climbing, stair climbing, and crawling to accomplish equipment isolation and movement of material
► Lifting and carrying of a variety of equipment weighing up to 50 lbs is sometimes necessary along with moving refrigeration cylinders and chemical drums weighing more than 50 lbs
► Potential to enter manholes underground (Confined spaces) and the Utilities tunnels