Water Treatment Plant Operator (Trainee)/Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator (Trainee)

(ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY)
• Performs study and reading assignments, observes demonstrations and otherwise learns the techniques of operation and maintenance of water treatment plant;
• Learns and assists in the operation and adjustment of pumps, valves, and related mechanical equipment;
• Learns and assists in the inspection, maintenance, and repair of pumps, valves, and related mechanical equipment;
• Learns and assists in the making of physical tests of water for color, odor and taste;
• Learns and assists in the making of chemical tests of water for alkalinity and residual chlorine;
• Learns and assists in regulating and adjusting chlorinators and other chemical feeders, washing filters and settling basins;
• Learns and assists in the preparation and maintenance of activity records and reports;
• Performs increasingly responsible duties as assigned in the operation and maintenance of a water treatment plant.

Graduation from high school; or possession of a New York State high school equivalency diploma.

The written test is designed to test for knowledge, skills and/or abilities in such areas as: 1.

Candidates must have been legal residents of Seneca County or one of the six contiguous counties for one month preceding the date of application. Preference in appointment may be given to successful candidates who have been legal residents of the municipality in which appointment is to be made for at least one month prior to the date of certification and are residents of such municipality at the t ime of appointment.

Applications will be accepted continuously with tests being scheduled by the Seneca County Personnel Office. Names of eligibles will be inserted, according to their final rating, on such list from time to time as applicants are tested and found qualified on the examinations held at such intervals. Eligibility is limited to a one-year period. This eligible list will be used to fill vacancies as ...