Wastewater Technical Services Manager
Listed on 2025-12-02
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Engineering
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Water Management
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Department – Regional Wastewater Reclamation.
Job Type: Classified. Job Classification: 5305 – Wastewater Technical Services Manager. Salary Grade: 16.
Pay Range: $75,816 – $106,163 annually. Hiring Range: $75,816 – $90,979 annually.
Pay Range explanation:
The Hiring Range is an estimate of the offer; the Pay Range represents the entire compensation range for the position.
The first review of applications will be on 11/21/2025.
Essential Functions- Plans, organizes, and manages the activities of professional and technical personnel engaged in specialized wastewater process operations.
- Coordinates engineering evaluations and reviews activities with various city and County departments, private utilities and firms, and state or federal agencies.
- Analyzes and determines effectiveness of treatment processes and ensures RWRD’s compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines.
- Develops wastewater process control policies, procedures, and standards in conformance with local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
- Develops process improvements, writes technical reports and white papers.
- Plans, reviews, and prepares reports and proposals for new projects.
- Responds to public requests for information and resolves complaints.
- Develops departmental budget, performs return on investment evaluations, and monitors contracts and expenditures.
- Advises on all matters pertaining to wastewater design, process control, odor control, energy usage, and systems troubleshooting.
- Trains, supervises, and evaluates assigned personnel.
- May provide expert testimony in court cases involving permit appeals and groundwater degradation issues.
- Develops general control narrative outlines and basic P&IDs, evaluates existing control narratives for functionality and efficiency, and revises control parameters as required.
Bachelor’s degree of science from an accredited college or university with a major in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) discipline or a closely‑related field as determined by the department head at the time of recruitment AND four years of experience in either water pollution control, project management, industrial facility operations and maintenance, engineering or water/wastewater industry technical consulting INCLUDING two years of supervisory or management experience.
(Possession of current Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Grade 4 Wastewater or Water Treatment Plant Operator Certification may substitute for Bachelor’s degree.)
(Relevant experience and/or education from an accredited college or university may be substituted.)
Or four years with Pima County as a Wastewater Operations & Maintenance Supervisor II, Wastewater Operations Manager, or Wastewater Planning Manager or related position as determined by the department head, INCLUDING one year of supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience in wastewater process control and engineering controls, and the basis of design.
- Experience with contract deliverables, including as-built drawings, Process & Instrument Diagram (P&IDs), and plan reviews.
- Experience evaluating and reviewing equipment technologies, equipment sizing, producing mass balance calculations, and estimating chemical, energy, and process air usage.
- Experience facilitating multidisciplinary design coordination, maintaining action and interface matrices, managing change control, resolving tie‑ins/outage, and hydraulic grade issues.
- Experience performing field inspections, process troubleshooting, and recommending optimization, improvements, and return on investment analysis.
Pima County Human Resources Department reserves the right to admit to the selection process only those candidates that meet the minimum qualifications. All applications will be assessed based on an evaluation of the listed education and experience. Candidates meeting the minimum qualifications may be further evaluated/scored against any advertised Preferred Qualifications. The hiring authority will interview and select the successful candidate from a referral…
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