Waste Water Treatment Operation Technician

Summary/Objective:  To maintain and control the wastewater treatment system to ensure environmental compliance with all local, state, and federal laws without major interruptions.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

• Ensure the efficient and optimum operations of the industrial effluent and reverse osmosis water treatment system.
• To respond and conduct industrial effluent treatment process control and monitoring effectively and efficiently and suggest any improvement.
• To conduct periodic checks and routine inspection to treatment processes according to the system recommendation and checklist.
• To troubleshoot treatment processes failure promptly. Under urgent cases, the person shall be required to work outside normal hours.
• To conduct regeneration to ion exchanger package of water treatment as per standard procedure to ensure resin in the vessel completely regeneration.
• To conduct backwash to multimedia filter and activated carbon filter as per standard procedure to ensure the media and carbon in the vessel completely backwash.
• Monitor and perform day-to-day treatment system operation with SCADA and site data logging.
• Ensure all treatment processes operating and perform as per operation need, cost effectively, safely and efficiently.
• Report treatment processes performance and monitor the sequence of operation in accordance with the approved treatment process control specification.
• Ensure the work is performed in accordance with the specifications and approved procedures.
• To conduct COD, SS, turbidity, pH, nickel test at in house lab. To conduct jar test and pilot column test at in house lab as and when required.
• To conduct filter clothes cleaning when required.
• To comply with all company policies, procedure and standards.
• To perform related duties as directed.
• To manage the biological pond condition.

 “The responsibilities as defined are intended to serve as a general guideline for this position. Associates may be asked to perform additional tasks depending on strengths and capabilities” 

Required Experience

• Minimum 3 year experiences in industrial effluent treatment system operation consist of chemical treatment package, ion exchanger package, multimedia filtration system, activated carbon filtration system and dewatering system (filter press & decanter).
• Minimum 3 year experiences in reverse osmosis water system operation consist of multimedia filtration system, activated carbon filtration system, double pass RO system, and ion exchanger package.
• Experience in DOE Std.A final effluent discharge industrial effluent treatment system is preferred.
• Experience in ion exchanger regeneration with acid sulfuric and hydrochloric acid for weak acid cation resin and strong acid cation resin is preferred.
• Experience in operation of industrial effluent treatment system control by SCADA is preferred.
• Experience in membrane cleaning and resin replacement is preferred.

Preferred Education/experience:

• High school, Certificate/Diploma in Mechanical / Electrical or others engineering is preferred.