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AlexRenew is one of the most advanced wastewater utilities in the United States, serving over 300,000 customers in Alexandria, VA, and parts of Fairfax County. Each year, our facility processes and treats approximately 13 billion gallons of wastewater received from area homes, schools, and businesses to protect public health and the environment. If you are interested in working for a leader in the wastewater industry, we invite qualified candidates to apply for our Pretreatment Program Specialist position.

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Summary:

The Pretreatment Program Specialist serves as the technical and regulatory lead for AlexRenew Pretreatment Program. This position is responsible for planning, administering, and continuously improving these programs to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental regulations. The Specialist oversees industrial user permitting, inspections, compliance monitoring, enforcement, data analysis, and program development to protect the Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF), collection system, biosolids quality, personnel safety, and receiving waters from the impacts of industrial discharges. This position requires strong regulatory expertise, sound judgment, effective communication, and a commitment to environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, and continuous program improvement. The Pretreatment Program Specialist reports to the Water Quality Manager.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Pretreatment Program Management

• Manage the Industrial Pretreatment Program in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local requirements, including 40 CFR Part 403, the VPDES permit, and local Sewer Use Ordinance.
• Draft and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) for inspections, sampling, permitting, and enforcement industrial wastewater discharge permits, control mechanisms, special conditions, and compliance schedules.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with industrial users, conduct surveys, maintain accurate inventories and regulatory determinations.
• Conducts scheduled and unscheduled on-site inspections of industrial users to observe operations, characterize processes, waste streams, pollutant sources, and pretreatment system performance and maintains accurate industrial user inventories and inspection records.
• Review all required submittals for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and regulatory adequacy.
• Support development and periodic review of local limits to protect treatment processes, biosolids quality, worker safety, and receiving waters.
• Implement compliance activities related to dental amalgam, slug discharge control, spill prevention, and other best management practice requirements, as applicable.
• Prepare and submit required regulatory reports, annual pretreatment program documentation, and other compliance deliverables within established deadlines.
• Maintain auditable program records, inspection files, enforcement documentation, and monitoring data in accordance with retention requirements and internal policy.
• Reviews proposed industrial developments, process changes, and new discharge requests to determine pretreatment applicability, permitting needs, and potential impacts to the WRRF and collection system.
• Meets with representatives of new industries and commercial businesses to educate them regarding pretreatment requirements.
• Monitors regulatory changes, guidance, and enforcement trends and advises management on impacts, implementation strategies, and program updates needed to maintain compliance.
• Maintains effective working relationships with industrial users, operations, laboratory, engineering, regulatory agencies and other stakeholders to support program effectiveness.

Stormwater Program Management

Emerging Contaminants Program Management

• Conducts quarterly monitoring on priority pollutants and PFAS, analyzes trends and makes recommendations.
• Manages PFAS and emerging contaminant monitoring programs, including sampling, source identification, industrial user surveys, laboratory coordination, regulatory evaluation, and development of compliance strategies and program improvements.
• Reviews quarterly PFAS monitoring data received from the SIU Program to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable monitoring and reporting requirements for submittal to Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
• Evaluates analytical data, sampling methods, preservation, holding times, chain-of-custody, and QA/QC documentation to ensure data defensibility and regulatory usability.
• Ensures proper maintenance, inspection, and calibration of field instruments, sampling equipment, and related documentation used for compliance monitoring activities.
• Coordinates with laboratories, contractors, and consultants to ensure proper analytical services, defensible documentation, and conformance with contract and regulatory requirements
• Participates in state and national workgroups on emerging contaminants, advises.
• Track regulatory changes, scientific guidance, analytical methods, and enforcement trends related to emerging contaminants and advise management on program impacts.

Key Competencies, Individual Contributor:

Qualification Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

Physical Demands:

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. A detailed Physical Demands Analysis is available in Human Resources and a copy will be provided to all incumbents in this position. While performing the duties of this job, the employee strength demands are typical of office work, and include lifting up to 10 pounds, and minimal pushing or pulling.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Environmental conditions necessitate following strict safety guidelines and use of Personal Protective Equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the work is performed primarily indoors, primarily in a climate controlled office environment, however outdoor trips are necessary to conduct field inspections.

Disclaimer:

The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.