Wastewater Maintenance Specialist - Mechanical

Wastewater Maintenance Specialist - Mechanical

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This range is provided by Pierce County. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$40.37/hr - $51.05/hr

As a seasoned mechanical maintenance professional, you will support the maintenance and repair of assets ranging from pumps and machinery to mechanical components for our wastewater assets. You may find yourself working in industrial facilities, confined spaces or roadway areas. Your efforts will support the Chambers Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, the Cascadia Wastewater Treatment Plant, as well as the collections system with over 790 miles of sewer lines, 17,500 manholes, and 100 pump stations.

This is a great opportunity to work with equipment, systems, and facilities that are relatively new and state of the art. Your work is essential to our customers and keeps Pierce County healthy and clean.

PPW is a diverse and fast-moving department filled with motivated professionals working to ensure Pierce County is positioned to handle growth while building, operating, and maintaining reliable infrastructure to support livable communities. PPW is responsible for a broad and complex portfolio of services that provides unique opportunities to collaborate, innovate, and inspire. We are responsible for the County road and levee systems, sewer systems, airports, ferries, building permits, environmental review, sustainability, community planning, and code enforcement - just to name a few!

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Your success will come from performing journey level mechanical maintenance work where you will work daily with your teammates, other trades, maintenance, and operations personnel to complete scheduled tasks, repairs and projects. Honest, concise, and frequent communication is important in building a positive relationship with our stakeholders and customers. Being a flexible team player, collaborative, and sharing knowledge with others will further ensure your success.

This is a great opportunity to be part of an organization that is a leader in the wastewater industry working with a group of professionals who take their work seriously and provide professional products. This position has multiple career growth and promotional opportunities in Pierce County to build on a great career.

• Perform regular checks on various machinery throughout the plant or collection system. Checks oil levels, conveyor belts for proper tension, drive belts for wear and cracks, chain drive links, sheaves and sprocket integrity and checks bearings for proper lubrication. Cleans gear boxes and where required, change oil filters.
• Perform safety checks on overhead cranes, cable collectors, railways and drum integrity. Removes or replaces work parts as required.
• Perform maintenance and ensures safety checks on various portable equipment such as emergency generators, compressors, and hydraulic pumping units.
• Prepare and initiate necessary work orders; schedule maintenance on a periodic basis; and write reports and purchase orders for parts and equipment.
• Initiate major overhaul of all types of pumps, meters, compressors, motors, gear boxes, chlorinators and major valve assemblies.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and repair work on shredders, lift and pump stations, grinders, blowers and related collection system equipment and machinery.
• Maintain and repair boilers by cleaning fire sides and linings; inspect safety equipment and related equipment to ensure proper operation.
• Uses gas, electric and heliarc welding systems, as needed, to cut, heat, braze or weld in the repair, construction or modification of plant equipment and systems.
• Perform fabrication work assignments to include milling, grinding and machining work.
• Review plan specifications, drawings and sketches of plant and/or sewer collections equipment or machinery.

• A resume is required for this position.
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