Water Quality Specialist

Tacoma Public Utilities • Tacoma, WA

318d • $40 - $48

About The Position

Does your dream role include being a part of a great team, interacting with the public, autonomy to schedule your work for the day, and knowing that your work has a direct impact on helping to ensure safe and reliable water for customers? If so, then Water Quality Specialist may be the role for you! Tacoma Water is creating an eligible list for Water Quality Specialist. Water Quality Specialists perform a variety of technical and complex regulatory compliance duties including investigating and resolving customer complaints concerning water quality; water sampling and monitoring of distribution systems for chemical and bacteriological analysis; administering water quality monitoring programs, wellhead protection and public outreach efforts; and, inspecting new and existing water service connections for compliance with cross connection control regulations.

Requirements

• Associate's degree or equivalent education related to the technical aspects of water quality such as sampling procedures, familiarity with field test kits and laboratory procedures, familiarity with drinking water quality regulations; OR
• Two (2) years of relevant technical experience involving drinking water quality.
• Valid Washington State Driver's License
• Valid Washington State certificate of competency as a Cross-Connection Specialist (CCS) prior to probation completion with maintenance thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of and experience in confined space entry procedures.
• Ability to interpret and apply codes, rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Communicate clearly both orally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Receive, investigate and resolve customer complaints and trouble calls regarding water quality
• Complex cross connection inspection and plan review
• Coordinate with building departments, engineers, architects, contractors and customers concerning cross-connection control requirements
• Coordinate and implement various drinking water programs, including but not limited to cross-connection control, wellhead protection, water main flushing, drinking water monitoring such as coliform, organic, inorganic and radionuclides
• Maintain accurate field records for water quality monitoring, collect water samples for water quality analysis, operate and maintains a variety of laboratory equipment and instrumentation, perform a variety of physical and chemical analyses on drinking water and surface water samples, obtain chlorine residual, turbidity, fluoride or other water quality measurements
• Operate, maintain, repair and calibrate fluoride, turbidity, pH and chlorine analyzers
• Use various computer programs, databases and spreadsheets to validate, analyze and manage data and to generate technical reports and related correspondence for water quality monitoring programs
• Coordinate with other agencies and regulatory bodies on implementation and changes in programs affecting water quality
• Operate a variety of equipment and machinery such as personal and laptop computer, radio, cell phone, digital camera, calculator and various water quality testing equipment
• Prepare purchase requisitions for water quality program requirements

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Administration of Economic Programs
• Education Level: Associate degree