Job Description
Sterling Engineering is partnering with an industrial energy provider to hire a Plant Water Treatment Manager for its East Chicago, IN facility. This is a hands-on opportunity for someone with experience in industrial water treatment, water filtration, utilities, or power generation who understands the importance of maintaining water quality in a demanding plant environment.
Location: East Chicago, IN 46312
Job Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $75,000–$95,000 annually + Bonus Potential
Responsibilities:
- Maintain water quality specifications required to support plant operations, electricity generation, and steam production
- Maintain water plant production and makeup water for boiler systems
- Perform water sampling, testing, analysis, reporting, and monitoring
- Monitor and adjust chemical levels throughout boiler, closed loop, cooling tower, and other water systems
- Operate and maintain water filtration, cooling tower, condensate, and feedwater systems
- Maintain and inspect chemical storage, feed, and control equipment
- Maintain and calibrate online analyzers including pH, conductivity, hardness, chlorine, silica, and sodium
- Troubleshoot plant processes and equipment and perform root cause analysis
- Coordinate with chemical suppliers and plant partners to maintain reliable operations
- Follow proper safety procedures when handling chemicals, maintaining equipment, and performing lockout/tagout activities
Requirements:
- Must Have: 3–5+ years of experience in industrial water treatment, water filtration, power generation, utilities, or a related industrial environment
- Must Have: Strong understanding of water treatment processes and plant equipment
- Must Have :Experience with boiler water, cooling towers, filtration, chemical treatment, or feedwater systems
- Hands on experience with water sampling, testing, and chemical adjustments Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
- Understanding of environmental and safety regulations
- Ability to independently coordinate multiple plant priorities and see projects through completion
- Valid driver's license
- Associate degree in Water Treatment or coursework in math, physical science, water filtration, or chemistry preferred
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | East Chicago, IN |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Chemistryunmatched
- Driver's Licenseunmatched
- Electric Power Generationunmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Mathematicsunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Physical Scienceunmatched
- Power Generationunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Safety Processunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Water Quality Testingunmatched
- Water Resource Managementunmatched
- Water Samplingunmatched
- Water Treatmentunmatched
- Water Utilityunmatched
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