Chief Operator - Wastewater Treatment

Company Description

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.

Job Description

Primary Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Ensure compliance with all regulatory standards and carries out responsibilities in accordance with company requirements
• Coordinate tasks and communicate scheduling of all grades of operator activities in the requirements of the operation of wastewater facilities including providing for adequate shift coverage, either personally or through subordinate personnel.
• Ensure compliance with all company policies such as but not limited to Health and Safety, both when carrying out personal duties and when overseeing subordinate personnel.
• Oversee contractors to ensure compliance with company and statutory standards.
• Identify and coordinate resources in the field to ensure satisfactory facility and personnel performance, including identifying and justifying any need for resources not available.
• Identify circumstances that may limit, inhibit or otherwise diminish performance such as emergencies, weather, equipment malfunction, ect…and develop any and all protocols to address standard performance and corrective or remedial action.
• Monitor, observe, and interpret operating conditions and performance and initiate maintenance/corrective action as required.
• Ensure that records of operating data, including meter and gauge readings are correctly maintained.  This includes the review and evaluation of test results reports, records, logs, and graphs to determine the system performance, and development of data requirements to improve this monitoring and evaluating activity. 
• Ensure proper operation of plant mechanical and electrical equipment, to maintain the process, especially through communication and coordination between all shifts and all disciplines, including maintenance staff.
• Assist in reviewing compliance with monitoring sampling plan.
• Responsible for the collection and analysis of samples for NPDES and DEP permit and quality monitoring and plant process control.
• Performs scheduled analysis of liquid, solids, and air samples, for plant process control.  Prepares reagents and glassware including general housekeeping duties.
• Undertakes quality control analysis by producing duplicate analysis, analysis standards, blanks, and spike recovery
• Ensures appropriate reagents and equipment are available and assists in ordering the same in accordance with company procedures.
• Ensures compliance with all procedures for laboratory accreditation including participation in regulatory inspections.
• Prepares reports and provides data in a form suitable for routine process review.
• Highlights analytical results when they are abnormal.
• Able to be on-call every other week, and available for overtime as needed.
• Other lesser duties and additional responsibilities as assigned by management.

Work Environment:

• Constantly moving about job site and facility to assess indoor and outdoor equipment.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Background: 

• High School Diploma/GED is required.

Required Certification/Licenses/Training: 

• Connecticut Class III Wastewater DEP Operators License (minimum license requirement).

Physical Requirements:

• Constantly operates tools, motorized equipment such as pumps and engines as well as computer and other office productivity machinery.
• Occasionally ascends/descends a ladder to service equipment at the facility.
• Very often positions self to maintain equipment including positions such as crawling, stooping, bending, and kneeling
• Constantly communicates with other employees and supervisors about the maintenance of the facility equipment.
• Frequently moves materials and equipment up to 50 pounds.

Additional Information

Benefits: Veolia’s comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental, vision, life insurance, savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteering and more. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.