Description
Primary Tasks:
- Cultivate and maintain professional working relationships with water and wastewater treatment facilities, staff, and upper management; conduct assessments of those facilities to identify bottlenecks, design flaws, required/needed upgrades, inefficiencies, and potential improvements; identify programs, funding opportunities, and other resources to increase the safety of the facilities’ products, provide upgrades, resiliency, redundancy, and efficiencies.
- Develop an assessment-reporting document to evaluate facilities equally and fairly to identify priority issues, environmental and human harm, and requests for assistance.
- Work cooperatively with internal tribal departments to coordinate efforts, as well as state and federal agencies for potential funding mechanisms.
- Gather drinking water and wastewater discharge water quality data for use as potential indicator of facility issues, inefficiencies, and internal department analysis.
- Establish point of contact at each water and wastewater treatment facility and field infrastructural questions, concerns, and funding requests.
- Attend/participate in networking and conference opportunities to increase knowledge and understanding of infrastructural issues and to identify potential funding.
- Provide insight on potential water and wastewater issues, upgrades, technical methodologies, and technological advancements in the industry.
- Develop reports, technical comments, and interpret engineering reports for infrastructure related projects for communities and the Choctaw Nation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Education, Skills And Experience
MINIMUM
- Bachelor of Science or Engineering based degree
- Basic Water Treatment Operator Certification
- Possesses current knowledge of technical advancements in water and wastewater treatment processes, methodologies, and engineering designs.
- Microsoft Office Suite experience
- Work with little or no supervision
- Knowledge of water and wastewater treatment processes, engineering protocols, scientific/engineering instrumentation, water chemistry analysis, and process analysis.
- Adaptability, detailed-orientated, self-motivated, and personable
- Two (2) years of experience developing assessment metrics, conducting inspections, interpreting basic engineering reports, public speaking experience, technical writing, and reporting
- Three (3) years of experience in water resource infrastructure; developing assessment metrics, conducting inspections, and interpreting engineering reports.
TARGET
- Master of Science or Engineering
- Advanced knowledge of water and wastewater treatment processes
- Experience with engineering protocols, scientific/engineering instrumentation, water chemistry analysis, and process analysis
- Advanced Microsoft Office Suite experience
- Work with little or no supervision
- Knowledge of water and wastewater treatment processes, engineering protocols, scientific/engineering instrumentation, water chemistry analysis, and process analysis.
- Highly adaptable, detailed-orientated, self-motivated, and personable
- More than two (2) years’ experience with public speaking, technical writing, and reporting
- Five (5) years of experience in water resource infrastructure; developing assessment metrics, conducting inspections, and interpreting engineering reports.
