ALCOSAN is committed to providing wastewater treatment services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. From our Board of Directors to our Executive Director, leadership and staff; we work to enhance the community’s quality of life and safety by protecting our rivers and streams. After 60 years of continued design, construction and operations of the sewer system and treatment plant, we now have 400 plus employees serving residential, commercial and industrial customers in 83 communities throughout Allegheny County.
Position Summary
The Sampling and Compliance Supervisor is responsible for supervising industrial pretreatment compliance within Authority regulations. This includes programs such as the Fats, Oil, and Grease Program (FOG), and the High-Strength Surcharge Program.
Job Duties
Project Manager for a large database structure that manages environmental permit compliance from 100+ Industrial Customers and the various reporting requirements. Performs database organization and quality assurance assessments of Laboratory information from internal sample results and external industrial customer data including the evaluation, reporting and organizational presentation of data. Organize and process information submitted by industrial customers for compliance with various regulations and reporting within the ALCOSAN Pretreatment Program. Provides data analysis and enforcement recommendations, in a report format to the Manager of Industrial Waste, and participates with the Manager and Director of Environmental Compliance in industrial enforcement negotiations. Organizes, assigns, and supervises the activities of the Department's Samplers and Investigators including sampling in the treatment plant, industrial sampling and inspection, and investigation of sewer incidents. Provides on-site supervision of Samplers and Investigators Provides monthly compliance reports for 100 + Industrial Users. Manages compliance schedules and serves as primary point-of-contact with industry to ensure scheduled activities are completed. Drafts Industrial Discharge Permits based upon knowledge and review of regulations, industrial processes, and compliance history for review and issuance by the Manager of Industrial Waste. Serves as primary point-of-contact of customer questions concerning Pretreatment requirements, The FOG Program, and The High Strength Surcharge Program. Manages the Authority's High Strength Surcharge Program. This includes, assigning sampling points, organization of data in a database, analyze data by queries and reports, provides an assessment of the data and prepares reports to be utilized by Customer Service and Billing. Generates incident reports, evaluates data, generates violation letter, reviews inspection reports which all would be tracked by a Department database system. Assumes duties of the Manager of Industrial Wastes in the Manager's absence and assists Manager with technical training and certification of field personnel. Coordinates and plans the department’s daily and weekly sampling activities and provides an estimated weekly sample projection to the Laboratory. Organizes and structures staff participation in Industrial Waste Department Education presentations. Reviews and shares new sampling techniques and methodologies as well as adding and developing corresponding Standard Operating Procedures.
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Job Duties (cont.)
Performs other job-related duties as needed.
Knowledge / Abilities
Knowledge / Abilities (at full job performance)
Extensive / Considerable knowledge of
- Database Management and data analysis
- Pre-treatment Industries including regulations and plant operations
- Industrial pretreatment Permit writing
- Industrial process flow diagrams
- Information Systems, data systems, and sampling procedures
- Chemistry and sampling correlation
- Multi-tasking
- Training and educating staff
- Deductive reasoning
- Customer Service and customer operations
- Industrial classification within the federal regulations including the how and why industries are classified
Some / Limited knowledge of
Building teams and motivating employees
Ability to
