To thrive in this position, you should be engaged, collaborative, studious, and possess a foundational understanding of wastewater operations. Moreover, your exceptional interpersonal skills and cultural awareness will significantly contribute to the team's cohesion. Your capacity to communicate transparently, directly, and constructively will be highly valued.
Here are a few reasons why this role is worth your consideration:
- Your contributions will directly influence the District's ability to deliver crucial public services.
- You'll have the privilege of learning from an highly skilled and knowledgeable team.
- While acquiring a comprehensive grasp of wastewater treatment, you'll also accumulate valuable OIT work experience hours, which align with your certification requirements.
Challenges you'll embrace:
- Meeting the job expectations for this position, including diligently maintaining a work log of your daily activities, will be a part of your responsibility.
- Navigating through competing demands and shifting priorities will be a regular aspect of your role.
- You'll encounter a diverse array of communication and learning styles, and your adaptability in response will be crucial.
This role offers you the chance to not only enrich your own learning journey but also contribute to the vital work of wastewater treatment and its impact on the community.
- Learning to conduct daily checks
- Making process adjustments
- Gaining a basic understanding of SCADA systems
- Learning industrial safety programs such as confined space and lock-out tag-out procedures
- Learning to troubleshoot and identify electrical component failures
- Conducting tests of laboratory analysis
- Managing chemical inventories
- Accommodating construction project activities.
By the end of the internship period incumbents should be able to draw basic diagram of the treatment process indicating each subprocess, calculate basic wastewater math formulae typically used by District operators, apply for and take the SWRCB grade 1 state exam, perform successful demonstration of capabilities in de-ragging a pump and backwashing a filter for inspection.
A High School diploma or GED with six educational points is required for the internship and to obtain the OIT certificate.
Experience working in a closely related field such as water/wastewater maintenance, lab, inspection, or other forms of industrial operations is preferred but not required.
A completed FSSD employment application and supplemental questionnaire must be submitted. This recruitment will close at 5:00 pm on Monday, April 27, 2026.
IMPORTANT: Contact with candidates will primarily be via email. Make sure you list a current email that you check regularly with your application.
Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application packet.
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