Excellent Benefits
The City provides a comprehensive benefits package that is largely employer paid including Medical/Dental/Vision, FSA/HSA, WA State PERS, Life/AD&D and generous paid Vacation, Holiday and Sick Leave Programs. The City also offers optional 457 and ROTH (up to 2% City match), LTD and Supplemental Life plan participation.
Essential Job Functions
- Responsible for operations and maintenance of treatment and sludge processing equipment in a safe and efficient manner to control flow and processing of wastewater, sludge and effluent.
- Performs process control, laboratory functions and routine maintenance of the collection system to ensure process balance.
- Inspects, adjusts, operates and maintains aerated chambers, mechanical bar screens, air blowers, centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, primary and secondary clarifiers, gravity belt thickener, belt filter press, primary and secondary anaerobic digesters, gas mixing system, boiler, heat exchanger, aeration basins, electrical motors, hypochlorite system and UV disinfection equipment.
- Operates and maintains sewage pump stations. Cleans wet wells, basins, tanks and clarifiers.
- Obtains wastewater samples and performs routine laboratory analysis and calculations to determine unit and plant efficiencies. Ensures compliance with, and accurately documents, the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit testing requirements. Evaluates data to ensure quality standards are met.
- Works closely, and collaborates effectively, with plant, environmental and engineering staff.
- Documents and maintains complete and concise operations logs and records. Prepares process control reports and presents findings.
- Monitors and maintains an organized, clean and safe work environment. Performs general clean up tasks throughout shift.
- Adheres to established safety procedures and utilizes safety equipment as required.
- Performs work in compliance with instructions, policies, procedures and legal requirements.
- Maintains current procedures and tasks to explain position responsibilities. Creates, updates and implements process improvement procedures, tasks, workflows and systems.
Qualification Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Three years of operational experience in a wastewater treatment plant.
- Current WA Department of Ecology Group II Wastewater Operator Certificate.
- Must obtain a WA CDL Class B Driver License (tanker endorsement/air brake restriction removed) within six (6) months of hire and maintain throughout employment.
City of Wenatchee Government
The City of Wenatchee is a full-service City employing 180 employees. In addition to Public Works other services provided include Police Department, Community Development, Executive Services, Finance, Information Systems and Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services. The City operates under a Strong Mayor form of government with seven council members serving at large. Active boards and commissions advise the City Council with governance.
The Community
The City of Wenatchee is home to 33,921 people with approximately 70,000 living in the greater Wenatchee urban area. Located in a beautiful valley at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers and on the east slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range, the city enjoys wonderful abundant sunshine with four distinct seasons. The average rainfall is a mere 10 inches per year making the region a focal point of Washington State for outdoor recreation. Wenatchee is the largest city in rural North Central Washington and thus provides a small-town atmosphere with big city amenities striking a great balance between rural and urban qualities of life. Furthermore, the city is only 30-minutes from the renowned resort towns of Leavenworth and Lake Chelan. For those desiring occasional amenities of major metropolitan areas, Seattle is a short scenic 3-hour drive or 30-minute flight away making Wenatchee very attractive to many people and families relocating from the Puget Sound area.
Find out more about the City at https://www.wenatcheewa.gov. Some of the tourism highlights of the region can be viewed at https://www.visitchelancounty.com/ and http://wenatchee.org/. Our historic downtown is a nationally recognized Main Street with an active downtown association https://wendowntown.org/.
Must See
“We are Wenatchee Part I"
“We are Wenatchee Part II”
“We are Wenatchee Part III”
How to Apply
Please visit the City of Wenatchee website to view the employment opportunity, job description and complete an online application:
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wenatcheewa/jobs/4265189/utility-worker-water?agetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs.
Open until filled.