What You Can Expect
As our High Quality Water Treatment Operator at the University of Iowa campus, you will be responsible for ensuring the daily route coverage to meet the high-quality water needs of on-campus clients. Your duties are customer facing and include monitoring, operating, and maintaining water treatment systems to provide specialized finished water for various operational needs at the University of Iowa. High Quality Water operates and services the public water systems at Oakdale Water Plant, and MacBride Nature Recreation Area, and various high quality water and pool/spa water systems across the campus. Processes include chlorination, PH adjustment, other chemical injection, water softening, filtration, reverse osmosis, deionization, distillation, and ultraviolet disinfection. You will also conduct flushing and disinfection as required for new construction piping systems, performing sampling and chemical treatments to meet NPDES permit discharge requirements. You will conduct water quality sampling and record operational parameters to ensure quality water is delivered efficiently. You will perform or coordinate equipment maintenance tasks identified on your rounds. Additionally you will read meters, and perform data entry for billing and regulatory reporting. Clean plants and grounds.
Your typical day starts with a morning meeting to discuss planned activities, review previous day's activities, and outline longer-term plans. Following this, you will commence your assigned route, which includes collecting samples, reading meters, and checking operating conditions of equipment such as pressures, water quality, and volume. Visiting customers with on-site equipment, making chemical adjustments, logging samples, and performing operational checks, and responding to outages or quality issues in the water systems. Maintenance tasks include flushing, disinfecting of process equipment, and other minor or preventative maintenance such as filter replacement and UV bulb replacement. You will utilize Maximo to track time and parts for billing purposes and complete vulnerability assessments. Additionally, you'll use Microsoft products (Excel, Word, Outlook) to ensure compliance and document testing and services for local, county, state, and federal requirements
This role primarily operates during day shifts, with occasional requirements for nights, weekends, and holidays due to on-call duties or planned/emergency outages.
What You’ll Bring
- This role requires a minimum of a High School Diploma or GED equivalent
- Must possess a valid state issued driver’s license and clean driving record, employee operates company vehicles daily
- Licensed or ability to be licensed as a State of Iowa Department of Natural Resources Grade 1 Water Treatment certification
- Licensed or ability to be licensed as a State of Iowa Department of Natural Resources Grade 1 Water Distribution certification
- Experience or education in laboratory procedures, mathematics, chemistry, biology, microbiology, human health, computers, instrumentation, and safety programs relevant to water treatment operations
- Familiarity with Iowa Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations for water treatment systems
Additional Details
- This role requires daily attendance at a worksite
- Must possess a valid state issued driver’s license and clean driving record, employee operates company vehicles daily
- Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies
- Ability to work safely in or with high noise levels, extreme heat, dust, high places, exhaust from purge pumps, chemicals and their fumes (sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, chlorine), fiber glass insulation, asbestos, welding hazards, cutting tools (power saws, grinders, drills, etc.), high pressure steam, hot condensate, high pressure distribution loop, and high speed rotating equipment
- Must be physically capable of hearing and understanding audible alarms, detecting changes in noise levels, and wearing personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Physically capable of entering and working in confined spaces and wearing PPE, including half and full-face respirators, fall protection equipment, hardhat, and safety shoes
- Ability to hear warning alarms
- Capable of performing various physical tasks, including standing, walking, climbing ladders, kneeling, pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
- Must have corrected eyesight at 20/40 to accurately read instruments, gauges, and manuals
- Ability to read gages, charts, computer monitors, operations manuals, and colorimetric test results
- Ability to operate forklifts, trucks, and other motor vehicles
- The position consists of 75% work indoors and 25% work outdoors travel between locations (building to building) may expose the employee to weather conditions
Compensation
Salary Range: $23.65 - $36.21 USD hourly
This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate.
Actual offered salary may depend on geography, experience, industry knowledge, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.
ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.
In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for a competitive bonus / incentive plan and emergency or on-call pay.
Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location
At ENGIE, we take your well-being seriously. Our comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, ESPP, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs. We also help you plan for retirement by offering a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match. But that's not all – we're dedicated to the health and happiness of your entire family, offering supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits. Explore our benefits package to see how we can support you. Learn more.
Why ENGIE?
ENGIE North America isn’t just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we’re leading it! Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone.
In 2020 The University of Iowa (UI) entered a 50-year, trailblazing partnership with the University of Iowa Energy Collaborative (UIEC), a joint venture between ENGIE, Meridiam, and Hannon Armstrong, to operate, maintain and enhance the university’s Utility System. As the founding member of this joint venture, ENGIE designs, builds, operates, and maintains the energy infrastructure delivering safe, reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable energy solutions in producing and distributing steam, electricity, chilled water, and domestic water to the main campus in Iowa City, Iowa and a nearby satellite campus.
At ENGIE, our goal is to support, promote, and thrive on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We do so for the benefit of our employees, customers, products and services, and community. ENGIE is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we are firmly committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees.
We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
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