Job opening: Water Treatment Plant Operator
Salary: $30 - 36 per hour
Published at: Jan 15 2025
Employment Type: Full-time
Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base (DIB) & Major Range and Test Facilities Base (MRTFB) to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
About the Position: This information is located in the "Qualification" section.
Duties
Serve as operator in charge of the sewage disposal plant.
Operate and maintain water pumping and treating equipment.
Perform water plant operator maintenance.
Determine significance of any problems occurring and take appropriate action.
Conduct daily, routine, basic laboratory tests necessary for plant operation.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual examination thereafter to ensure the continued, required level of physical health and ability or fitness to perform the duties of the position.
- The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
- Must be Class C State certified as a Water Treatment Plant Operator.
- Must be Class C State certified as Sewage Disposal Plant Operator.
- Must complete the introductory course in Hazardous Waste Management within six months of being assigned to this position and attend annual refresher training.
- This position is required to work shift work and rotating shifts.
Qualifications
About the Position: This position is with the Joint Munitions Command located at McAlester, OK. This position serves as a Water Treatment Plant Operator applying standard plant operating procedures.
Who May Apply: US Citizens
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision.
Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a(n) Water Treatment Plant Operator ~ without more than normal supervision. Duties such as operate water pumping and water treating equipment used in the process of purifying water for personal consumption and industrial purposes; manually regulate valves to control flow of raw water from entities such as lakes through a water treatment plant; collect and weigh water samples to insure maintaining the correct pH in the dosed water. - Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating.
Physical Effort: Water plant operators do considerable walking, standing on concrete floors, and climbing stairways and ladders. Light to moderate physical effort is necessary to turn valves and controls. They frequently lift and carry items weighing up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds) unassisted and occasionally lift and carry heavier items with assistance of other workers or with lifting devices.
Working Conditions: Work is performed both inside and outside; subject to damp, odorous, and varied weather conditions for substantial amount of time; possible infection, asphyxiation, and injury from contact with sewage, and sewage gases and fumes, plant equipment and/or more severe injuries from falls into open tanks. Is exposed to chlorine gas and dusts of lime and alum which may call for protective clothing.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address GL-W390AA MCALESTER ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT
DO NOT MAIL
McAlester, OK 74501
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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