Wastewater Maintenance Specialist, Mechanical - Treatment Plant Program

Posting number: 26-00849

Department: Planning and Public Works

Division: PPW WWTP Operations

Job classification: Wastewater Maintenance Specialist - Mechanical

Posting type: Open

Categories: Building & Safety, Community Services, Engineering, Facility Management, Planning and Development, Public Works, Trades, Water Treatment, Water Agency, Wastewater, Maintenance, Utilities, Construction Maintenance, Project Management, Electronics, Technical Education, Construction Trades, Stormwater

Summary

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Examples of duties

Why It's a great opportunity: As a mechanical maintenance professional, you will support the maintenance and repair of machinery, equipment and systems at our Industrial wastewater facilities Your efforts will support the Chambers Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, the Cascadia Wastewater Treatment Plant, and pump stations across the County. This is a great opportunity to work with equipment, systems, and facilities that are relatively new and state of the art. Your work is essential to our customers and keeps Pierce County healthy and clean. 

Why It's a great department: PPW stewards a healthy and vibrant community by collaboratively planning and investing in our people, infrastructure, systems, and policies. PPW’s team has more than 800 members that collaborate, innovate and inspire in performing essential services to the community. The department is responsible for the County road and levee systems, sewer systems, airports, ferries, building permits, environmental review, sustainability, community planning, and code enforcement - just to name a few!

Learn more about Planning and Public Works here. 

How to be successful in the role: Your success will come from performing journey level mechanical maintenance work where you will work daily with your teammates, other trades, maintenance, and operations personnel to complete scheduled tasks, repairs and projects. Honest, concise, and frequent communication is important in building a positive relationship with our stakeholders and customers.  Being a flexible team player, collaborative, and sharing knowledge with others will further ensure your success. 

Your future in this role: This is a great opportunity to be part of an organization that is a leader in the wastewater industry working with a group of professionals who take their work seriously and provide professional products. This position has multiple career growth and promotional opportunities in Pierce County to build on a great career. 

Core daily responsibilities:

• Perform regular checks on various machinery throughout the plant or collection system. Checks oil levels, conveyor belts for proper tension, drive belts for wear and cracks, chain drive links, sheaves and sprocket integrity and checks bearings for proper lubrication. Cleans gear boxes and where required, change oil filters. 
• Perform safety checks on overhead cranes, cable collectors, railways and drum integrity. Removes or replaces work parts as required. 
• Perform maintenance and ensures safety checks on various portable equipment such as emergency generators, compressors, and hydraulic pumping units. 
• Prepare and initiate necessary work orders; schedule maintenance on a periodic basis; and write reports and purchase orders for parts and equipment. 
• Initiate major overhaul of all types of pumps, meters, compressors, motors, gear boxes, chlorinators and major valve assemblies. 
• Maintain and repair boilers by cleaning fire sides and linings; inspect safety equipment and related equipment to ensure proper operation. 
• Uses gas, electric and heliarc welding systems, as needed, to cut, heat, braze or weld in the repair, construction or modification of plant equipment and systems. 
• Perform fabrication work assignments to include milling, grinding and machining work. 
• Review plan specifications, drawings and sketches of plant and/or sewer collections equipment or machinery.

A classification description with a more detailed list of essential functions can be found here.

Qualifications

• A combination of education/experience which clearly demonstrates ability to perform the duties of this classification may be substituted for education and formal training. 
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in the maintenance and repair of mechanical, pumping, or collection system is required. 
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