O&M Technician II

## 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 **Position Purpose:** Veolia North America operates and maintains the Village Of Wellsville wastewater treatment plant, collection system and wastewater pump stations. Work involves daily operation activities to achieve efficient and safe operation of the wastewater treatment plant and wastewater pump stations; while ensuring wastewater effluent quality meets or exceeds various permit limits. **Primary Duties/Responsibilities:** - Operate, monitor, inspect and maintain equipment and processes at the wastewater treatment plant in a safe and efficient manner while satisfying the requirements of customers, clients, and regulatory agencies. - Maintains and operates wastewater treatment facility and collection system. Responsible for the proper use and care of hand tools and knowledge and use of the company’s safety policies and procedures. Performs preventive maintenance, housekeeping tasks, and inspections as assigned. - Collects samples for process control and compliance monitoring in accordance with standard procedures. - Performs process control sample analyses in accordance with standard procedures. - Complies with company safety programs. - Monitor processes/equipment to ensure efficient operations by taking samples required for process control and regulatory reporting purposes, recording and logging flows, visually inspecting tanks, levels, pump speeds; recording information in logs and reports. - Perform inspection rounds of facilities; recognize, resolve, and report problems that could jeopardize employee safety or equipment operations. - Perform necessary housekeeping functions to and around plant equipment, buildings and grounds, including snow shoveling, sweeping, painting, operating mowers and other powered lawn equipment. Maintains appearance and cleanliness of all facilities under the responsibility of Suez; maintains and cleans vehicles. - Perform preventive maintenance tasks as assigned, including exercising valves, lubrication, filter checks, inspection of safety-related items such as emergency lighting and ladders. - Respond to customers in the field concerning wastewater issues; locate underground utilities. - Perform other duties as assigned. **Work Environment:** - While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. - The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. - Odors and sights in and around the workplace can be unpleasant. ## Qualifications **Education/Experience/Background:** - High School Diploma/GED is required. - 1 - 2 years of experience in the wastewater industry or related field is preferred. **Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:** - General knowledge of wastewater operations, sampling, lab operations, or related fields. - Professional judgment / decision-making skills. - Ability to perform general math calculations. - Mechanical Aptitude: intuitive understanding of mechanical processes, including the operation of tools and machinery, as well as grasping the basic principles of physics that govern these systems. - Willingness to learn - Growth mindset and openness to mastering new skills. - Ability to operate and maintain equipment such as pumps, motors, electric generators, and piping systems. - Ability to us…