Job Openings In Michigan Title:
Wastewater Operations Supervisor III (night shift)

Post Date
9/18/2018

Expiration Date
12/17/2018

Details:
BENEFITS OFFERED WITH THIS POSITION INCLUDE:
• Defined benefit pension plan
• 401a with City match
• Optional 457 Deferred Compensation plan
• Reciprocal Pension Credit, available for pension-qualified applicants
• Retiree health reimbursement account
• Very generous medical/dental/vision/pharmacy plans
• Paid vacation, personal time, floating holiday, plus sick days. Unused vacation and sick time rolls over
• Short-term and long-term disability, life, and AD&D insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• You can earn up to $500 annually by participating in our Wellness Incentive Programs. These dollars will be deposited into a health reimbursement account (HRA), which can be used toward eligible health care expenses
• Tuition reimbursement $2500, must be employed 1 year to be eligible
• Employee assistance program
• Voluntary benefits like accident coverage, critical illness, LegalShield, and Identify Theft

PAY RATE INFORMATION:
This position is represented by the TEAMSTER union and starting pay is $32.09/hour. This position is eligible for step pay increases and potential progression increases. Please reference Teamster's collective bargaining agreement located at http://www.a2gov.org/departments/Human-Resources/Pages/Compensation-and-Contracts.aspx
Job progressions serve as a way for union employees to demonstrate additional technical competencies, knowledge and skills to enhance their benefit to the City. The progression allows employees to enhance their job responsibilities and pay through demonstration of increased competencies.

ROLE SUMMARY:
To develop, facilitate and assist Water Utility employees in operating, maintaining, inspecting, installing and repairing wastewater treatment facilities and associated collection and distribution equipment, systems and components.

DUTIES:
Incumbent may be responsible for, but not limited to, the following technical and skilled duties, both participatory and supervisory:
Essential Duties
• Work is performed on an assigned shift and involves the oversight and operation of process control and equipment, routine laboratory analyses, the responsibility for maintaining safe liquid, solid and air discharges into the environment and adequate quantity and pressure of a potable water supply
• Supervision of personnel and conducting plant inspections to ensure continued and productive operations.
• Supervising, facilitating and managing the professional development, training needs and performance of Water Utility employees
• Providing leadership for Self-Directed Work Teams
• Managing personnel, which includes assisting in planning and facilitating work assignments, training, inspection follow-up, mentoring, conducting performance evaluations and issuing discipline
• Developing and administering in-plant and/or City training programs, policies and procedures, and coordinating external training and testing
• Enforcing City and Department work rules and implementing collective bargaining agreement provisions
• Ensuring that supervised personnel are properly trained and/or certified to perform the duties of their job
• Ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations (MDEQ and EPA) for hazardous materials
• Ensuring the safe and proper use of various hand tools, power tools and test instruments
• Ensuring that proper safety practices for, but not limited to, confined space entry, storing, handling and transporting compressed gases and chemicals are followed
• Assuring the proper use of correct lock-out and tag-out procedures

RELATED WORK:
• Completing work process demonstration and documentation
• Performing data collection and report generation
• Performing related work as assigned.


Qualifications:
KNOWLEDGE OF:
• Facilitating Self-Directed Work Teams
• Machines and tools, including their design, use, benefit and maintenance
• General operating principles, practices and procedures of a water utilities plant
• General production and processing procedures (input, output, quality control, waste)
• General chemistry, mathematics and hydraulics
• General mechanic practices, procedures, tools, and equipment
• General preventive maintenance practices and adjustment of water utility equipment
• General maintenance management, inventory control and City purchasing procedures
• General computer hardware and software applications
• Basic hazard, work safety and water safety precautions for the water utilities industry

SKILLS AND ABILITY TO:
• Communicate through oral and written instruction
• Coach Self-Directed Work Teams
• Develop both written and hands-on training
• Coordinate training and testing on the following:
• Repairing machines, equipment and systems using necessary tools
• Reading, interpreting, and following manuals, plans, technical drawings and maps
• Operating laboratory and plant equipment and record-keeping
• Monitoring operational controls, computer screens, gauges, dials and meters
• Identifying problems and finding solutions as an individual and a member of a team
• Chemical process analyses
• Conducting tests to determine functionality of water utility components
• Using computers and related software applications
Equipment
Basic hand tools, laboratory and field testing equipment, safety and personal protective equipment (PPE), forklift, personnel lift, power tools, shop equipment and computer and miscellaneous office equipment and motor vehicle.

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
• High school graduate or equivalent (GED)
• Experience in wastewater treatment plant operation and maintenance: at least 3 years
• Demonstrated leadership abilities: at least 1 year

LICENSING REQUIREMENTS
• Valid driver's license
• Class C certification (State of Michigan Wastewater Certification) from MDEQ or an equivalent license from another State. If hired with an equivalent license from another State, an MDEQ, C license, must be obtained within 12 months of hire date.
• (A Class B certification must be reached within 2 years)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
The physical ability to perform climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing, driving and repetitive motions.
The physical ability to safely operate a motor vehicle, as incumbent may be subject to local and long distance driving. Incumbent may be exposed to hazardous physical conditions (i.e., confined spaces, heights, mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibration, etc.), poor atmospheric conditions (i.e., fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and poor ventilation), extreme temperatures, inadequate lighting, and intense noise. More specifically, incumbents must have the ability to perform confined space activities including, but not limited to; climbing ladders, use of safety retrieval harness, retrieving coworkers weighing up to 300 pounds with a winch assisted retrieval unit, wearing respiratory protection and all PPE required to perform safe work tasks. The incumbent may have to move full wheelbarrows of grit, sludge cake and other material weighing up to 100 pounds, and work in pits and tanks wearing applicable safety and PPE. Incumbents must have the ability to lift tools, supplies and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds. If necessary, the physical ability to enter into and exit from a boat, carrying equipment and supplies, etc. (rowing may be required).
Heavy Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

EEO:
We are proud of our diverse workforce and our commitment to equal opportunity. We do not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, arrest record, color, disability, educational association, familial status, family responsibilities, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, height, HIV status, marital status, national origin, political beliefs, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, source of income, veteran status, victim of domestic violence or stalking, or weight in any aspect of our hiring or employment process. The City of Ann Arbor has earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Municipal Equality Index (MEI), which assesses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality in more than 500 cities across the nation.


Employer:
The City of Ann Arbor
Contact:
Roberta Niedson

Address:
301 E. Huron Street
6th Floor, P.O.Box 8647

Work Phone:
7347946128

Fax:
7349945961

Email:
RNiedson@a2gov.org

Website:
https://a2gov.applicantpro.com/jobs/889188-72068.html