Wastewater Chief Treatment Plant Operator chez Charlottenc

Date Opened: Thursday, September 18, 2025 12:00 AM

Close Date: Thursday, October 02, 2025 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $33.56 - $41.95 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce

• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development

• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services

• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems

• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

SUMMARY

Charlotte’s local government, with more than 9,000 employees and a total budget of $3.65 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play.

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330,000 customer accounts and over 1100 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 26 budget is $651 million and a five-year capital program of $2.2.28 billion. We enjoy the highest credit ratings from Moody’s and S&P Global as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent, skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.

SALARY:

The salary for this position is: $37.76 - $41.94 Hourly Commensurate with Experience

SUMMARY:

This position assists the Treatment Plant Supervisor with managing, monitoring, and operating the treatment plant. This is accomplished by ensuring the treatment processes function properly and that the plant meets permit requirements; assisting with semi-annual and annual performance evaluations of employees; assisting with the implementation of directives for staff and operations; and providing direction in the daily operation of the treatment plant. Other duties include managing the ISO program; scheduling instrumentation calibrations of plant processes; being a member of the safety team; training operators; and serving as Backup Operator in Responsible Charge (ORC).

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Manages operations staff by both working with and assigning tasks to the plant staff.
• Troubleshooting problems and escalating solutions to the ORC or maintenance.
• Monitors and helps to maintain plant instruments and other equipment to analyze plant conditions.
• Maintains plant records and documents; serves as Backup to the ORC; and serving as supervisor in the absence of the Plant Supervisor. Must be available for emergency needs at plant site.
• Coordinates with treatment plant maintenance division by managing work orders and assigning work order priority.
• Tracks work orders, attends monthly Ops/Maintenance meetings.
• Manages safety program by maintaining MSDS sheets; posting safety signage; providing protective equipment to operator; assists with or coordinates emergency response measures.
• Monitors plant for safe and unsafe conditions, conducts safety training, completes contractor safety checklists and other safety permits as required, serves as the Plant’s Safety Coordinator.
• Performs administrative functions by ensuring daily processes and plant operations forms are completed and entered Information Management Software System.
• Manages the Plant’s Stormwater Integrated Contingency Plan (ICP) by ensuring all monitoring, housekeeping, and inspections are up to date.
• Coordinates monthly staff meetings with Plant Supervisor.
• Maintains communication with operators, manages monthly equipment rotations and out of service equipment, maintains plant sampling, inspections, plant chemicals, fuels, and process control records.
• Participates on project teams, including ISO 14001 implementation and review.        

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO PERFORM WORK:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• Five (5) years of related work experience in Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations

Licenses, Certifications or Registrations:

• Requires Class C driver’s license.
• Must obtain and maintain a City Driver's Permit.
• Requires a Biological WW IV license.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Requires ability to read and understand complex sketches, diagrams, technical specifications, and operating and maintenance manuals.
• Must have an advanced knowledge and understanding of wastewater treatment principles and practices.
• Must have excellent oral/written communication skills, organizational skills.
• Requires the ability to work cooperatively with other city employees and the public.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The work is medium work and requires applying 30 pounds of force frequently and exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required: balancing, crawling, crouching, feeling, manual dexterity, grasping, handling, perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, distinguishing among sounds, kneeling, lifting, mental acuity, pulling, pushing, reaching, repetitive motion, speaking, expressing ideas by spoken word, shouting above noises, visual acuity in data/color/observations/equipment/inspections, and walking.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:     

Work is performed in an environment with heavy equipment and machinery that could result in bodily harm to co-workers or others. Requires working indoors/outdoors; during inclement weather; around chemicals, solvents, and dust in industrial environment; and working overtime, weekends and holidays as assigned.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

This job description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position. While it is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and assign other duties at any time.  This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were written out in this job description.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The City’s Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes, but is not limited to: reference checks, social security verification, education verification, criminal conviction record check, and, if applicable, a credit history check, sex offender registry and motor vehicle records check.

Background checks must be in compliance with all federal and state statutes, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The checks must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by these laws requiring organizations to obtain a candidate’s written authorization before obtaining a criminal background report, motor vehicle records check or credit report; and to properly store and dispose of information derived from such reports.

Final candidates must pass a pre-employment drug-screening test and physical examination. During the selection process, candidates may be asked to take a skills test, and/or participate in other assessments.

The City of Charlotte is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or on the basis of actual or perceived gender as expressed through dress, appearance, or behavior.

Our culture is to serve the community honorably.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply online.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.

You are welcome to visit the City of Charlotte Human Resources Department lobby, where self-service application kiosks are available. They are located in our office at 700 East 4th Street, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28202. We are open Monday through Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST), excluding official City holidays.

For questions about your application or the hiring process, please email [email protected].

The City of Charlotte is committed to making our services and programs accessible to all. Upon request, auxiliary aids, written materials in alternate formats, language access, and other reasonable accommodations or modifications will be provided. To make a request, please fill out the Innovation & Technology ADA request form or call 704.336.4120.

BENEEFITS

The City of Charlotte provides a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees.

Click here to learn more about the City of Charlotte’s benefits.

The City of Charlotte is a drug and alcohol-free workplace.

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