Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator

Position: Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator I
Date Opened:
Friday, January 30, 2026 12:00 AMClose Date:
Friday, February 13, 2026 12:00 AM Department:
Charlotte Water Department Salary: $24.00 - $0.00 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 $24.00 per hour.
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* WORK SCHEDULE:

** Rotating night shift with every other weekend off.
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* JOB SUMMARY:

** Work involves performing duties on an assigned shift at the plant; assisting with monitoring equipment and processes for proper operations; troubleshooting and resolving issues with plant equipment; conducting testing and analysis of samples; endeavoring to keep the wastewater plant operating at optimum levels; communicating any potential issues; and providing technical assistance to other employees.  This position walks around the plant checking equipment, follows safety rules and protocols, performs audits, and maintains records.

New hire training may occur on a different shift than the permanently assigned shift. This position will fill a rotating night shift. (Working every other Weekend)
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* ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

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* * Observes/reports on facility conditions/operations.
* Uses biological/chemical parameters to analyze overall wastewater treatment plant operations; reports anomalies.
* Performs process control activities by: collecting, testing, and analyzing process control samples; inputting operational data into computer software; analyzing biological bacteria; conducting settleability test; collecting composite samples; monitoring sludge blanket levels; calibrating and monitoring automatic samplers for permit compliance; and running additional tests as needed to ensure proper process control.
* Monitors SCADA computer workstations for plant equipment and process conditions.
* Maintains flows and loading by continuously monitoring dissolved oxygen; returns activated sludge rates, ammonia levels, suspended solids levels, alkalinity chemical levels, wasting rates, flows, digester temperatures and levels, chemical feed rates and tank levels, methane gas pressures and flows, and other process indicators.
* Handles secondary digester level by estimating/scheduling appropriate start up and shutdown times of the belt filter presses.
* Performs laboratory analysis on wastewater samples to recommend/implement operational changes
* Maintains facility equipment and housekeeping in assigned area
* Operates various types of…