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Maintenance Operator
About the job Maintenance Operator
- Cleans, maintains, repairs, and overhauls water and wastewater plant, pumping, treatment and all other associated mechanical equipment.
- Participates in the on-call rotation, responds to alarms after hours and weekends as required.
- Maintains, calibrates, and repairs chemical feeders and associated equipment
- Informs the maintenance supervisor or other authority of plant maintenance and operating problems
- Assists in developing and implementing preventive and predictive maintenance tasks for all wastewater treatment and pumping equipment.
- Maintains and repairs pumps, other rotating machinery, valves, and other equipment as assigned.
- Performs predictive maintenance such as vibration analysis and laser alignment as well as preventative maintenance including lubrication and changing oils and fluids.
- Assists in determining new equipment, needed repairs, inventory and replacement parts necessary to perform maintenance and repairs; research vendors to locate necessary items determine compatibility and obtain competitive prices as directed by Supervisor; maintain adequate supplies and equipment.
- Inspects mechanical equipment installed by contractors to ensure safe and satisfactory functioning.
- Assists with preparing, interpreting, and maintaining required reports, manuals and records as directed by Supervisor.
- Maintains instruction manuals, shop drawings, O & M manuals and other documentation pertaining to wastewater treatment and pumping equipment.
- Provides written information required to update manuals, drawings, or other records.
- Prepares required reports, daily logs, time sheets and work orders.
- Repairs and maintains all heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems of all facilities.
- Installs diagnoses, and repairs new and existing mechanical systems, electrical systems, plumbing systems and equipment per written instructions, blueprints, or technical drawings.
- Performs preventive, predictive, normal and emergency maintenance and inspections on all Facilities equipment.
- Assures proper safety techniques and equipment is used to promote and ensure a safe job site.
- Provides background information and determines necessary material, and time required for various jobs.
- Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service.
- Coordinates assigned services and activities with other Utility staff, coordinates between management staff and operations staff, prioritizes work requests and work orders.