Water Technician Job Description
Water technician
provides daily work assignments and supervise the Water Treatment Technicians and the Waste-Water Technicians performing various tasks related to waste and potable water treatment processes.
Water Technician Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Utilizing quality systems and diagnosing process issues related to Reverse Osmosis, Filtration, Ion Exchange, Ultra Violet Light Sterilization
Provide Hazardous Communication (HAZCOM), hazardous materials (HAZMAT), and hazardous waste (HAZWASTE) training to installation personnel to include designated Unit Environmental Coordinators (UECs), Accumulation Point Managers (APMs) and HAZMAT Monitors on a monthly basis
Draft monthly report detailing the total tonnage of refuse collected, disposal location, tipping fees
Work from detailed sketches or off redlines to prepare plans, profiles, and detail drawings in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 (and more current versions)
Develop construction documents showing topographical contours, elevations, profiles and cross-sections develop draft design engineering drawings
Understand and use established company standards for drafting including layer names
Handle AutoCAD transfers
Analyze sketches, notes and other input material to determine and plan the best approach to develop and complete drawings with minimal supervision
Inform Project Manager(s) of progress on assigned projects and request work when needed
Maintain organized work area to allow access of project information by other team members
Water Technician Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Water Technician
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: EPA, UPW, MRPT, SCUBA, FL, US, RSES, III, NICET, MK-30
Education for Water Technician
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the water technician job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Technical, Engineering, Science, Education, Associates, Chemistry, Management, Technology, Graduate, Design
Skills for Water Technician
Desired skills for water technician include:
Adherence to DaVita Employment and Teammate policies
Current USP water standards
Relevant waste water treatment applications
Activated sludge
Clarification
Disinfection
Air cylinders
Codes
Pneumatics
Solenoid valves
Desired experience for water technician includes:
Ability to process paper/electronic documents and utilize computer equipment
Job also requires ability to evaluate alternatives and select solutions, manage multiple concurrent projects
Be proficient in discipline specific design authoring packages
Knowledge / awareness of the engineering fundamentals in the fields of one of Hydrotechnic, Water and Wastewater networks, conveyance, treatment works
Identifyies basic water treatment problems and establishes action plans for resolution
Manages hazardous waste which includes the daily maintenance of entry and exit logs maintainance of the temporary storage of these clean and orderly
Water Technician Examples
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Water Technician Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of water technician. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for water technician
- Makes the necessary analysis and maintenance of the water treatment plant and maintains plant area clean and orderly
- Establishes water care service programs and ensures that they are maintained within established budgets
- Identifies and corrects basic water treatment problems or deficiencies
- Provides management with timely and meaningful reports on any issues
- Become familiar with all Fabs and production areas
- Coordinate with the tool crib the movement of used light tubes, batteries, and other misc
- Perform work required for the preventive maintenance, condition monitoring, repair
- Ensures that daily work complies with Ohio EPA and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO regulatory requirements for operations
- Manual and/or via SCADA system, operates, maintains, reads, interprets, and records as directed all instruments at the plant and at various remote locations
- Monitors and controls SCADA system for effective operation of the Ashtabula County water system
Qualifications for water technician
- 2 - 3 years service experience desired, water treatment service experience preferred
- May be required to read dials/gauges, identify small objects and hand tools
- Must not have physical restrictions or existing medical conditions that may prevent them from serving in a remote area with limited medical care
- The ability to take responsibility for your portion of the discipline's scope
- Ability to read and interpret water and sewer pipeline construction drawings with some knowledge of construction including materials, methods, plans and specifications
- Prefer Military Preventive Medicine experience
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Water Technician Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a water technician. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for water technician
- Performs routine preventative maintenance tasks and calibrations for UPW and IWT Systems
- Performs routine inspections and construction tasks for UPW and IWT Systems
- Provides support for new equipment start-up and sustaining operations
- Monitors trends by observing change points and following escalation plans if any deviation occurs, Technician performs analysis and either follows detailed scripts to perform troubleshooting or escalates issue if necessary
- Utilizes the key takeaways learned from day-to-day activities to make recommendations to Sr
- Operates and retrieves data from monitoring equipment
- Works from schematics, diagrams, written/verbal instructions, layouts or defined plans
- Collaborates with other facilities departments/internal customers to support the safety and reliability of the equipment and systems
- Normally receives detailed instructions on routine work, new projects or assignments
- Receives guidance/mentoring from higher level Technicians/ TRs/Supervisors to prioritize daily tasks
Qualifications for water technician
- No previous education or years of work-related experience
- Of well systems, water treatment operation, and repair in an overseas location
- 2 years of college/technical school preferred
- MUST have FIVE (5) years of directly related experience
- Semiconductor or high volume manufacturing experience preferred
- Prior High Purity Water and Waste Water Treatment Operations experience preferred
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of water technician. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for water technician
- Read daily workload folder and ensure that all of the equipment and personnel are in place to conduct work
- Oversee the setup, completion and rig down of water transfer equipment including conveyance piping, pumps, fitting, containment, road crossings
- Make daily decisions regarding employee issues and water transfer job performance
- Oversee the care and maintenance of all Water Transfer equipment
- Perform maintenance on pumping materials and pumping equipment, diagnostics and repairs to pressurized pipe and hoses
- Haul pipe, transfer pumps, hoses, manifolds, skidsteer, and road crossing on public and private rights of ways in adverse weather using 40 foot trailer behind heavy truck
- Maintain all employee related paperwork, time sheets, driver DOT logs, trip sheets
- Wash and maintain equipment to Company standards
- Requisition and approve purchase of parts and fittings
- Work is basic and not complex
Qualifications for water technician
- Water treatment and waste water process knowledge
- Effectively communicates written/verbal within the organization
- Should demonstrate adaptability
- Wear clean room suit and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) per the SAS FAB protocol
- Work in tight fitting, FAB environment
- May perform repetitive hand and wrist motions and may sometimes have to twist and bend body
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Water Technician Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a water technician. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for water technician
- Approves purchase of materials and parts
- Other employees, Supervisors, Lead Water Transfer
- Provides guidance to less experience Water Transfer employees
- Install water transfer piping, road crossings, pumps and appurtenances required to transfer water
- Haul pipe, transfer pumps, hoses, manifolds, skidsteer, and road crossing on public and private rights of way in adverse weather using 40 foot trailer behind heavy truck
- Efficiently operate and understand the maintenance limitations of transfer pumps and skid steer loaders
- Notify Lead Water Transfer of materials and parts needs
- Serve as back up for Water Transfer Lead
- Fills out time sheets, daily work sheets logs
- Requisition purchase of parts and fittings
Qualifications for water technician
- Vision – May be exposed to yellow lights, blinking lights
- Able to discern audible alarms
- Any combination of training and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, biology or environmental science
- Knowledge of TDS, TSS, Alkalinity, BOD, COD, Oil & Grease, Fecal Coliform and E coli preferred
- You would cover 9 hospitals between Riverside/Moreno Valley and Escondido area
- Previous experience and qualifications in a water hygiene role preferred
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a water technician. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for water technician
- Other employees, Supervisor, Lead Water Transfer
- May provide guidance to less experienced Water Transfer employees
- Collecting water samples, analyzing the water quality and documenting this data in an electronic format
- Collecting and sending water, deposit and metallurgical samples to our Lab for analysis
- Troubleshooting water and process related issues at the customer site(s)
- Maintaining chemical feed systems in good working order
- Monitoring and calibrating associated monitoring and control instrumentation
- Repairing chemical injection pumps and feed systems
- Changing out chemical totes and drums, as needed
- Monitoring chemical usage rates and maintaining chemical inventories
Qualifications for water technician
- Must be willing to work 4 on and 4 off shifts, overtime and weekends/holidays, if needed
- Ability to work with others in a professional team environment independently when required
- Proficient with Autodesk Civil 3D (with knowledge of Surfaces, Grading, Pipe Networks, Profiles, and Plan Production tools)
- Familiarity with Autodesk Infraworks, ArcGIS or Bentley Microstation a plus
- Understands and applies Computer Automation
- Learning on the Fly, Problem Solving, Perseverance, Patience, Time Management, Drive for Results, Self-Development, Customer Focus, Listening, Informing