RED-Rochester, LLC

Water Specialist

Rochester, NY

Full-time

$52,000-$79,040

About This Job

Responsible for the operation and maintenance of Water collection, pumping, filtration, treatment, chemical feed, instrumentation and controls systems located at:

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Lake Station Water Collection & Treatment Plant located at Edgemere Drive

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High Purity Water Generation Plant located at Building 61

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Various Industrial Water, Fire-main & High Purity Water system components across the Eastman Business Park.

Essential Duties:

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Maintain Clear and Consistent Communication relating to the current status, performance and needs of your assigned location with RED-Rochester team supervisor, maintenance planner and operations staff. Ensure all RED-Rochester customer communicated concerns are immediately communicated and appropriately responded to.

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Perform Laboratory Testing of water samples, as required, ensuring that appropriate Recordkeeping requirements are met (such as reportable items for NYSDOH, DEC, EPA or Others) and provided to the RED-Rochester Water (NY State Department of Health Grade 1A Operator certified) Champion.

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Evaluate operation and provide corrective adjustment to chemical feed or filtration systems.

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Perform Calibration and Maintenance on specialized water quality instrumentation, as needed for assigned equipment or systems.

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Assists Maintenance Planner to develop standard preventive maintenance routines to ensure maximum equipment uptime and lifespan is attained for all responsible systems.

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Assists Maintenance Planner to develop corrective (repair) maintenance job plans as needed to ensure all equipment repairs are completed in a timely basis to maintain all system redundancies for optimum emergency performance.

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Coordinates with Maintenance Planner, all shutdown planning (routine & emergency) for the execution of maintenance activities to include Customer end-user notifications.

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Complete all planned maintenance routines for assigned locations, documenting all actions within the RED-Rochester work order management system (MAXIMO®).

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Complete all assigned corrective maintenance actions, documenting all actions within the RED-Rochester work order management system (MAXIMO®).

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Assist with any Plant Overhaul, Upgrade or Modernization Activities being completed within assigned locations.

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Supervise any outside Contractor executing work within your assigned work location to ensure compliance with RED-Rochester safety policies and that the RED-Rochester standards for workmanship are maintained.

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Daily Operations and Data Management for assigned plants utilizing RED-Rochester Plant Logical Control (PLC) or Distributed Control System (DCS) Systems or Data Management Software (Emerson Ovation® , Wonderware®, PI®, Provox®, Delta-V® or others.)

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Assist in the development and implementation of Health, Safety and Environmental Plans related to assigned locations.

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Provide Operations department specific training for monitoring and emergency response for assigned areas of responsibilities.

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Oversee Chemical (Chlorine, coagulant, or bisulfite) Consumable and Repair Part inventory for area of responsibilities.

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Work, as needed within the larger team structure for Red-Rochester major emergencies or catastrophic failures.

Equipment Competencies, but not limited to:

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Heat exchangers, surge suppressors, vacuum breakers, air compressors, air dryers, valves, coagulant & chlorine pumps, high and low lift pumps

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Turbidity Meters, Chlorine Analyzers, conductivity meters and other specialized instrumentation

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Rapid sand filtration, Brine tanks, Resin systems, RO, Water softeners, UV Sterilizers, membrane or media filtration systems.

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Lake Intake, sludge collection & backwash systems

Soft skills Competencies:

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Excellent and Clear Communication skills

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Demonstrated ability to work independently or within a team environment.

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Demonstrated Mechanical aptitude and abilities

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Demonstrated Electrical aptitude and abilities

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Demonstrated conceptual and practical trouble shooting skills

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Ability to follow procedures, work instructions and safety/environmental regulations

Education and/or Experience:

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High school diploma/GED

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5 years of applicable water treatment or high purity water generation experience.

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Applicable Associates or Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required.

Qualifications or Licenses:

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Must obtain the NYS DOH Grade-D certification for chemical treatment within 12 months

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Must work towards the NYS DOH Grade 1A Operators Certification (up to 10 years)

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Must obtain required safety operator licenses, as needed for fork truck, man lift and scissor lift within 12 months (Employer Provided)

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Immediately obtain OSHA 10hr certification.

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Must obtain OSHA 30hr certification within 12 months.

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Must obtain OSHA HAZWOPER 40hr certification within 3 months.

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Must have an unencumbered valid NYS drivers’ license

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May obtain the Rochester city S-3 Operating license within a 12 month period.

Work Environment

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Industrial environment.

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Working outside in all weather conditions from street level to roof tops.

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Working inside in extreme conditions from basements to rooftops and above including inspections of cooling towers.

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Possibility of temperatures ranging from extreme cold to over 100 degrees.

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Work will take place in chemical areas, noisy areas and areas that may be very dirty. Also will be operating heavy-duty machinery and vehicles including, Boomlifts (Manlifts), scissors lifts, fork trucks and power-walkie trucks.

Physical Demands

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Position requires strenuous effort, climbing, stair climbing, and crawling to accomplish equipment isolation and movement of material

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Lifting and carrying of a variety of equipment weighing up to 50 lbs is sometimes necessary along with moving refrigeration cylinders and chemical drums weighing more than 50 lbs

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Potential to enter manholes underground (Confined spaces) and the Utilities tunnels

Water Specialist

About This Job

Essential Duties:

Equipment Competencies, but not limited to:

Soft skills Competencies:

Education and/or Experience:

Qualifications or Licenses:

Work Environment

Physical Demands

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