Weekend Electroplating Process Engineer Jobs in Taos, NM

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a full-time Wastewater Treatment Plant Technician to join the team at our Questa, New Mexico plant.  Be involved in projects with our Mining Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges. 

Your Impact

• Assist colleagues in the water treatment plant process with monitoring and adjustments.
• Perform laboratory water and process sampling QA/QC which includes solids analysis and benchtop spectrophotometer analysis of water samples.
• Perform influent water source sample collection and equipment monitoring at remote locations.
• Perform data collection and data entry of process and other operations information into operations logbooks up to 6 times per day.
• Perform filter press operation up to 12 times per day.    
• Monitor extended systems critical to plant process (including chemical feeds, influent water sources, and lift stations).
• Perform operation and maintenance of heavy mobile, construction type, equipment for offloading deliveries, delivering filter cake to the on-site repository, performing building maintenance and performing snow removal.
• Assist maintenance personnel with repairs and maintenance, including grounds maintenance, as required.
• Respond to callouts for special projects as needed on an on-call basis. 

Who You Are
Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• At least one year of plant operations experience.
• Ability to obtain a 40-hour OSHA HazWOPER certificate or have a current certificate. 
• Must successfully complete and pass WSP's Motor Vehicle screening. 
• Ability to operate heavy mobile, construction type equipment.
• Good understanding of Health and Safety practices and mechanical aptitude.
• Must be able to pass a HAZWOPER physical
• Ability to complete shift work including nights, weekends, and holidays, as necessary (shifts are 12-hours per day). 
• Ability to operate and maintain all equipment in a safe and controlled manner in accordance with site health and safety plans and industry best practices and applicable programs such as OSHA
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds several times per day.
• Ability to walk up and down stairs and on unimproved areas of the site several times per day.
• This role is subject to a client-mandated drug/alcohol testing policy. As such, employee may be subject to random drug/alcohol tests. A copy of this policy will be provided during employee onboarding and is available upon applicant request. 
   

Preferred Qualifications

• New Mexico wastewater treatment operator certification "D" level or higher.
• Two (2) years or more operating an industrial wastewater treatment plant. 
• DOT licensed driver with water tanker certification a plus

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

• Job sites may be located at various elevations, including mountain environments at elevations above 8,000 feet, depending on the site
• Exposure to differing temperatures levels, including extreme heat and extreme cold, snowy conditions
• Required use of correct PPE, including safety glasses, hearing protection, high visibility clothing, steel-toed work boots and anti-slip footwear devices, occasional use of a respirator is required
• Manual dexterity required to use equipment
• Prolonged periods of standing, walking, reaching, balancing, kneeling crouching, crawling and ascending stairs throughout facility
• Walking the process floor and hiking unimproved areas of the site, walking may exceed several miles per day

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