Description
The Waste Water Technician/Maintenance Mechanic II is responsible for Waste water related tasks, including start-up: ensuring the system is producing clean water; mechanical/chemical trouble shooting in addition to planning, layout, and performing a variety of general maintenance duties to install, maintain, and repair production machines or equipment, attachments, or other apparatus or mechanisms as used in the various departments.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The essential duties and responsibilities of this job are included but not limited to this job description – other tasks may be assigned and expected to be performed.
- Responsible for calibration and adjustment/repair of diaphragm pumps & other mechanical components
- Switching sample bottle and programmed sampler as needed.
- Performing mechanical and chemical troubleshooting of waste water system.
- Maintain a chemical inventory, checking and changing chemicals.
- Using a computer to print out periodic flow/Ph charts.
- Empty and clean filter press as required.
- Take care of sludge removal.
- Keep a detailed logbook on routine and abnormal conditions.
- Assist municipal and contracted technicians or inspectors on audits and sample collections. Coordinate hazardous waste pickup and disposal
- Operate all waste water and associated equipment.
- Review and responds to the maintenance service request.
- Utilize the EAM system to ensure thorough maintenance record keeping.
- Perform regularly scheduled Preventative maintenance actives as assigned.
- Carry out various facilities maintenance tasks.
- Move various large equipment and assemblies throughout the plant.
- Train and mentor Level 2 Mechanics.
- Fabricate and repair equipment with mig and tig welders.
- Use a lathe and mill to fabricate machine components.
- Troubleshoot mechanical advanced problems on equipment throughout the facility.
- Troubleshoot hydraulic and pneumatic issues through the use of equipment schematics.
- Perform and lead major equipment rebuilds.
- Tear down machines and mechanisms, determine the extent of troubles, repair damaged mechanisms, and/or replace worn parts and reassemble.
- Perform machinist work. Occasionally set up and operate typical machine tools to perform turning, boring, facing, threading, grinding, honing, etc., or other related hand operations to properly fit and align replacement parts.
- Perform mechanical work as necessary to move and align production machinery, equipment and newly installed replacement parts to the required accuracy.
- Perform carpentry work such as building workbenches, office partitions, etc. Perform simple pipe fitting, painting, and sheet metal work or other necessary layout work to complete jobs at hand.
- Work involves a variety of regular machines, and bench and hand operations requiring familiarity with the machinist trade.
- Detailed knowledge of plumbing, carpentry, welding, and general maintenance drafts and proficiency requiring skill and judgment to tear down ordinary units, installation of new machinery and/or the relocation of present equipment.
- Duties require a broad knowledge in several areas such as carpentry, plumbing, welding, sheet metal, pipe fitting, general knowledge of the electric hand tools; regular blueprint reading, and the experience necessary for recommending machine modifications.
- Maintain work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition and follow standard safety regulations. Execute a variety of other similar and associated duties as required.
- Perform other similar and associated duties as required or directed.
