Posted: 30/01/2025
Closing Date: 21/02/2025
**Salary**: $77,577.76 - $85,631.33
**Job Type**: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Jindabyne
Job Category: Water and Wastewater
**Package**: $77,577.76 - $85,631.33 + 11.5% Super (Grade 8 of the SMRC Salary System 2024-2025)
**Position Description**:**Technician Wastewater Jindabyne**
**Applications close 11:59pm, Friday 21 February 2025**
About The Region: The Snowy Monaro region is a unique and culturally diverse region of south-east NSW. From our history of the Snowy Hydro Scheme, our proud agricultural industry and popular ski resorts, we are a region that has a lot to offer. With fantastic lifestyle choices, whether you are an adventure seeker or prefer the finer things in life, we really can offer it all, and all within close proximity to our nation's capital Canberra. The Snowy Mountains region is packed with year-round experiences with so much more than snow sports and alpine walks. Glorious wildflowers blanket the alpine landscape of Kosciuszko National Park during summer, and if you love adventure sports there's rock climbing, kayaking, caving, fishing, horse riding, mountain biking, and 4WD touring activities to get your heart racing. Explore the famous Snowy River, and go skiing or snowboarding on the slopes of Perisher and Thredbo - or camp under the stars at some of the most picturesque campgrounds in NSW. You'll never forget the rugged alpine scenery of Australia's largest national park. Snowy Monaro Regional Council employs over 450 staff from all walks of life and working with us will give you the opportunity to enjoy our beautiful surrounds, progress your career and make a difference in our local community.
**About the Role**:
- Operate and maintain the Snowy Monaro Regional Council Area water and wastewater treatment plants in accordance with the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (ADWG) and Environmental
Licences for each plant.
- Possess a good knowledge of the operation, maintenance and monitoring of water and wastewater treatment (coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection and biological
treatment systems, laboratory equipment, disinfection equipment, fluoridation dosing equipment, activated sludge process, sludge treatment and effluent reuse scheme),
- Have a good knowledge of mathematical operations and calculations to indicate water and wastewater plant performance,
- Understand Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and Chemical hazards,
- Have comprehensive communication skills (written and oral skills sufficient to obtain and notify others of technical information),
- Installation, operation and maintenance of Water and Sewerage infrastructure and network assets
within the Council area,
- Water and Sewer quality testing,
- Maintenance of water supply system and sewer drainage systems within the Council area,
- To carry out work as required on relevant asset installations for the Water and Wastewater department,
- Demonstrate a commitment to Councils WHS policy in the workplace,
- To acquire, process and document water and sewer data in electronic and hard copy format,
- Demonstrate a commitment to Customer Service,
- Liaise with the Supervisor in meeting legislative requirements,
- Be available for on-call rosters and available to respond to emergency call-outs when rostered and be available to undertake work on weekends as rostered,
- Promote information sharing and knowledge transfer to drive evidence-based decision-making, enhance capability and optimise capacity
- Contribute to the performance of Council: demonstrate professional conduct, make the best use of knowledge, experience and skills and be accountable for own decisions and actions
- Contribute to a safe workplace: comply with legislative and organisational requirements and be accountable for own decisions and actions
**About You**:
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Certificate of Part 1 - Wastewater Treatment Operations and Part 2 - Advanced Treatment for wastewater treatment
- Certificate of Part 1 - Chemical Dosing Systems and Part 2 - Water Treatment Operations,
- Fluoride Dosing Certification,
- Basic Asbestos Handling Training
- Construction Induction White Card
- Demonstrated competence in the maintenance of water, plants, reticulation systems and pump station for water and wastewater systems
- Appropriate relevant experience in a water and wastewater operations and maintenance
- Demonstrated ability to operate, competently, small plant, including: Lawnmowers, whipper snippers, sludge pumps and water snorter (pipeline pressure cleaner),
- Willingness to undertake confined spaces training courses including refresher courses
- Physically fit to complete all aspects of the position
- Ability to work and participate in a work team environment,
- Proven commitment to Work Health and Safety
- Ability to work independently with minimum supervision
- Proven ability to develop and maintain internal and external stakeholder rel