• Job Description

  Req#: 2 7330 5 009

  The purpose of this position is to ensure water is safe for consumption. This is accomplished by performing day-to-day water plant operations, testing and analyzing water on a scheduled basis, and determining and applying what is needed in order to ensure continued safety and quality.

  Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Monitors, inspects, calibrates, and adjusts water plant operations to verify that flows, pressures, chemicals, water tank levels, etc. are maintained.
  • Performs hourly, bi-hourly, and daily tests for temperature, pH level, and chemical and bacteria levels to ensure water meets state and federal regulations.
  • Determines proper chemical dosage rates to ensure water safety and quality based on test results.
  • Maintains detailed records of routine water plant operations and test results.
  • Backwashes filters by reversing the flow of water to remove entrapped solids when necessary.
  • Receives, unloads, and stores chemicals from vendors.
  • Communicates water conditions to appropriate City departments, Fire Marshalls, surrounding cities, and others.

  Supplemental Functions:

  • Performs other similar duties as required.

  Job Specifications and Qualifications:

  Knowledge:

  • Applicable local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations;
  • Water treatment facility principles and practices.

  Licensing and Certifications:

  • Valid North Carolina Driver’s License;
  • Ability to obtain Level C, North Carolina State Surface Water Treatment Certification. Failure to obtain within one year from hire date may result in termination.

  Preferred Licensing and Certifications:

  • Level B, and A North Carolina State Surface Water Treatment Certification.

  PLEASE NOTE: Applicants must meet the City criteria for an acceptable driving record.

  Working Conditions / Physical Requirements:

  • Positions in this class require: standing, fine dexterity, walking, lifting, carrying, sitting, handling, pushing/pulling, climbing, vision, hearing, twisting, talking

  • Medium Work: Exerting 20 - 50 pounds occasionally, 10-25 pounds frequently, or up to 10 pounds constantly.

  • Incumbents may be subjected to extreme temperature, wetness and/or humidity, respiratory hazards, noise and vibration, physical hazards.

• About the company

  Concord's history dates back over 200 years. Back in the late 1700's, it seems there was a disagreement between the German and Scots-Irish settlements in the area over exactly where the County seat of the newly formed county of Cabarrus should be locat...

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