Senior Operations Specialist (Water)
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About the Role
HDR is seeking a Senior Operations Specialist to work on municipal and industrial water treatment facilities. The role involves reviewing drawings, managing O&M projects, performing startup and commissioning, and training clients.
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Responsibilities
- Support HDR project leaders on water treatment projects requiring input from Operations Specialists
- Review drawings for operability review and HazOps analysis
- Manage operations and maintenance projects with municipal and industrial clients
- Develop startup and commissioning plans and host workshops
- Perform startup and commissioning of new water treatment facilities
- Perform formal and informal training to help clients' treatment plants operate optimally
- Participate in testing of facilities to ensure readiness for startup and capacity requirements
- Perform condition assessment and asset management tasks on water and wastewater facilities
- Perform operational or maintenance troubleshooting and evaluations on municipal and industrial water facilities
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years field experience in troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment at water treatment facilities and/or resolving water treatment process problems
- High level water treatment operator license or professional engineering license
- Ability to interpret engineering plans and specifications
- Microsoft Office product and computerized maintenance and management systems experience
- Valid driver's license
- High School diploma or equivalent
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About HDR
- HDR is an employee owned engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services firm with nearly 13,000 employee owners worldwide.
- ENR ranked HDR in the top 10 of Water design firms, Water Treatment and Desalination design firms, and Wastewater design firms.
- The Water Business Group has over 2,000 employee owners, with over 500 in the Eastern Region.
Primary Responsibilities
- Support HDR project leaders at the local, state, and regional level on water treatment projects requiring input from Operations Specialists.
- Review drawings for operability review and HazOps analysis with an eye for what it takes to successfully operate a variety of treatment processes successfully.
- Manage operations and maintenance projects with both municipal and industrial clients. It will involve client interfacing, regulatory reporting, as well as personnel, subcontractor, and maintenance management.
- Develop startup and commissioning plans and host workshops to share those ideas with client’s contractors and operators to ensure the plan will work for each specific plant.
- Perform startup and commissioning of new water treatment facilities. This work involves you playing a key role in working alongside contractors and engineers to ensure the new equipment functions correctly before handing it over to the operations and maintenance staff.
- Perform formal and informal training to help our clients’ treatment plants operate as well as they can operate.
- Participate in the testing of facilities to ensure they are ready for startup and after startup they meet the capacity requirements of the design.
- Perform condition assessment and asset management tasks on water and wastewater facilities, using state of the art evaluation tools to efficiently capture the information and opinions that you generate.
- Perform operational or maintenance troubleshooting and evaluations on municipal and industrial water facilities.
Strongly Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years field experience in troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment at water treatment facilities and/or resolving water treatment process problems. Additional construction experience is a plus.
- High level water treatment operator license or professional engineering license.
- Ability to interpret engineering plans and specifications.
- Microsoft Office product and computerized maintenance and management systems experience required.
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee owned culture is a must.
- Valid driver’s license.
Required Qualifications
- High School diploma or equivalent.
- Microsoft Office product experience.
- General background related experience.
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee owned culture is a must.
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