Assistant Wastewater Plant Technician: 1st Shift, Day 1 Benefits

Are you looking for stable work as an Assistant Wasterwaste Plant Technician with benefits that provide financial security for you and your family? Aspiring to advance in your heavy equipment career at a site that prides itself on employee safety? Searching for a company that prioritizes its employees' well-being and understands the importance of family time? If this speaks to you, then WM might be the place for your next career move. 

Stable work and benefits that support you and your loved ones, a schedule that respects work life balance with your safety at the heart of everything we do and support for your future with training and development based on your unique career goals. That’s what you get as an Assistant Wasterwaste Plant Technician at WM – and more. 

About us

WM is North America’s leading provider of comprehensive waste management environmental services. We partner with our customers and the communities we serve to manage and reduce waste at each stage from collection to disposal, while recovering valuable resources and creating clean, renewable energy. 

The pay and benefits you’ll get as an Assistant Wasterwaste Plant Technician:

• Starting salary $21 - $31 depending on experience
• Stable hours for your financial stability
• Access to a stock purchase plan 
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage including dental, vision and prescription coverage.
• We are Committed to Growth: Annual Education Assistance Benefit available for team members
• Company-matched 401(k)
• Adoption assistance and parent support

These are just a few of our comprehensive benefits for an Assistant Wasterwaste Plant Technician. Whether you are planning on building or expanding your family or looking for the next step in your career – WM is there, helping build the best and total you. 

The hours and location you’ll work in as an Assistant Wasterwaste Plant Technician with WM:

• Monday – Friday every week
• 8:30AM - 5:00PM 
• Rotating On-Call for Weekends 
• We’re committed to offering you stable hours for the financial security and work life balance you need.
• The normal setting for this job is our Landfill site in LOUISVILLE, KY.  

Those are the key details on pay and schedule – now here’s more on what you’ll be doing as an Assistant Wasterwaste Plant Technician at WM. 

Operates sewage treatment, sludge processing, and disposal equipment in wastewater (sewage) treatment plant to control flow and processing of sewage. 

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
 

• Monitors control panels and adjusts valves and gates manually or by remote control to regulate flow of sewage.
• Observes variations in operating conditions and interprets meter and gauge readings and tests results to determine load requirements.
• Starts and stops pumps, engines, and generators to control flow of raw sewage through filtering, settling, aeration, and sludge digestion processes.
• Maintains log of operations and records meter and gauge readings.
• Collects sewage sample and conducts laboratory tests.
• Operates and maintains power generating equipment to provide steam and electricity for plant.

III. Qualifications 

A. Required Qualifications 
 

• High School Diploma or G.E.D (accredited).
• No experience No prior work experience.

B. Preferred Qualifications 

• Some industrial experience strongly preferred.

IV. Physical Requirements

Listed below are key points regarding physical demands, physical and occupational risks, and the work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.☒ Field: This job operates in both inside gas plant conditions as well as in outside conditions that include inclement weather, heat and humidity.
 

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click Apply.