Regional Wastewater Operations Superintendent

Regional Wastewater Operation Superintendent

Pay Grade: 617

Location: Water/Wastewater Facilities

Vacancy Announcement

Nature Of The Work

Safety Sensitive Position WC 7580

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Brief Description

The purpose of this position is to provide supervision and management functions to wastewater treatment plants. This is accomplished by managing personnel and monitoring performance; performing plant inspections for safety and appropriate plant operations; ensuring regulatory compliance; maintaining a safety-oriented work environment; facilitating employee training; and completing administrative duties. Responsibilities include developing annual budgets for approval, monitoring budgets throughout the year, reviewing lab reports and monthly operation reports, reporting non-compliance for all collection and treatment facilities to TCEQ, preparing TCEQ annual sludge reports, meeting with customers, responding to emergencies, communicating with internal and external customers, preparing internal reports, managing capital projects, reviewing and amending risk management plans, and ensuring safety inspection compliance. Other responsibilities include developing costs for proposals, ensuring regulatory compliance, working with other departments, superintendents, and managers to accomplish the overall objectives of the Authority, and performing any other duties as assigned.

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Job Requirements

• Minimum seven years' experience or an equivalent combination of education
• Class A Wastewater License.
• Valid Class C Driver's License and Good Driving Record
• Class A Water License and HazMat Responder Certification are preferred.

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• High School Plus Vocational Training - Obtained with advanced study or training past high school.

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Key Competencies

• Investing time and energy into understanding the evolving nature of their role within the organization, and developing the skills, behaviors, procedures, and perspectives to be successful...
• Creating honest, trusting, and successful working relationships with others (inside and outside the organization) by consistently demonstrating competence and reliability in job performance, and representing what is best about the organization through demonstrated principles, actions, and communications...
• Identifying and evaluating unique ways to improve the organization (cost reductions, use of resources, policies/procedures, products); generating useful new ideas, approaches or techniques.
• Working with others to share expertise and achieve outcomes that benefit the organization; stepping in to fill necessary roles that others are unable or unwilling to do; demonstrating strong communication skills to others on the team through active listening, summarizing, facilitating and "bridge building"...
• Handling a large amount of work efficiently and effectively.
• Ensuring that work accomplished is accurate in all relevant aspects.
• Setting objectives which are specific and clearly communicated, measurable, challenging but realistically achievable, and time targeted...
• Interpreting, explaining and implementing organization and unit policies, procedures, guidelines and programs; working within the spirit and the intent of policy for the organization's success.
• Effectively adapting to tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and sudden or frequent changes in priority in order to accomplish objectives.
• Managing crises so there is minimal cost to the organization and minimal detriment to personal well-being (e.g. health, family, etc.).
• Staying motivated even when faced with inevitable delays, setbacks, policy shifts and disappointment.
• Taking responsibility for clarifying the expectations of others; acknowledging how personal decisions, actions, and standards of performance influence work accomplishments; accepting responsibility for work accomplishments; and recognizing changes required to achieve better results going forward...
• Demonstrating support for in