Environmental Technician

Glanbia•Clovis, NM

15d

About The Position

Performs work involved in operating, maintaining, and analyzing the Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) in accordance with discharge requirements, along with other environmental duties as needed. This is a training position in which the operator begins learning more advanced operational duties, maintenance activities, and laboratory sampling and analysis in preparation to become a Wastewater Treatment Plant Lead-Operator. The role involves collecting and analyzing samples, recording and reporting operating data, supporting maintenance and troubleshooting, operating WWTP equipment, and helping meet other environmental requirements. The Environmental Technician must follow occupational safety and health requirements and applicable food safety regulations and mandates, including FSMA, Safe Quality Foods, FDA, and the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance. The position also supports Glanbia’s values through respectful and transparent collaboration, process improvement, training and knowledge-sharing, customer support, and meeting role metrics. Minimal travel is required within the local area. Work may involve manufacturing equipment, loud noise, humidity, intense heat, possible air contaminants, fumes and toxic chemicals, moving mechanical parts, elevated areas with fall risk, and electrical-shock hazards.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED preferred, and/or 1 to 2 years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Valid driver’s license.
Waste Water Level 1 Certification.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
Ability to provide leadership through example and sharing knowledge and skills.
Ability to solve practical problems and handle a variety of concrete variables where standardization is limited.
Ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and delegate assignments.
Ability to comply with safety policies, practices, and procedures and report unsafe activities.
Ability to participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts, including proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.

Responsibilities

Attend monthly safety meetings and quarterly quality meetings; attend the Morning Meeting when the Environmental Manager is absent.
Perform safety audits of the WWTP.
Take accurate daily readings from flow meters and other analytical equipment and legibly record the data.
Collect daily samples, reset samplers, and accurately perform assigned laboratory sample analyses.
Enter test data into the computer and email the daily zones report in a timely manner.
Assist the Team Leader and Assistant Team Leader with troubleshooting WWTP maintenance issues, and notify the Environmental Manager of major equipment issues that cannot be resolved independently.
Safely operate the Belt Press when assigned and learn and safely operate new equipment as needed.
Collect and send Final Effluent samples for weekly analysis and Leak Detect samples for quarterly analysis.
Assist other operators with quarterly sludge-judge work.
Perform biogas testing.
Restore all diffusers to working condition each spring or summer.
Perform a monthly lagoon berm check.
Assist with annual WWTP winterization.
During adverse weather, use the loader tractor to keep snow cleared from paved areas.
Safely unload incoming chemicals used in WWTP operations.
Learn and assist with other environmental requirements, including air-emission visual assessments and waste-oil-area audits.
Use GPS processes, drive zero losses, and uphold the culture of Southwest Cheese non-negotiables.
Comply with applicable occupational safety and health standards, rules, regulations, and orders.
Comply with applicable food safety regulations and mandates, including FSMA, Safe Quality Foods, FDA, and the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance.
Research issues and incidents collaboratively, communicating professionally, honestly, and transparently with internal teams, business partners, and customers.
Work with internal and external teams to implement process improvements or procedural changes that eliminate non-value-added activities and create business value.
Assist with training new team members and facilitate or oversee training and standard operating procedure reviews.
Proactively support customer needs, take ownership of customer requests, engage internal teams as needed, and meet or exceed service-level timelines.
Meet or exceed role metrics and continually update knowledge of products, product changes, processes, and services.
Serve on committees as needed and perform other duties as assigned.
Comply with safety policies and procedures, report unsafe activities to a supervisor or Human Resources, and participate in team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
Prioritize tasks, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and delegate assignments to others.
Perform essential duties efficiently and accurately, with or without reasonable accommodation, without creating a significant safety threat to self or others.