Monitoring, documenting, and optimizing wastewater plant process controls to include adjusting wastewater flow rates, chemical dosage set points, air compressor discharge pressures, and blower output settings; Maintaining compliance with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality VPDES permit and the Environmental Protection Agency's federal regulations; Recognizing and correcting negative impacts to wastewater quality; Sampling, collecting, documenting chain of custody information, transporting, and performing laboratory testing and analysis on wastewater, sludge, and biosolids samples; Reading and interpreting gauges, meters, wastewater quality analyzers, and control panels to monitor plant equipment and adjust treatment processes to maintain compliance with the wastewater treatment plant permits; Observing and documenting variations in operating conditions and wastewater treatment techniques to determine proper process control adjustments; Recording operational data in wastewater control station log books, digital databases, daily log sheets, and supervisory control and data acquisition systems; Operating valves, gates, pumps, and plant equipment to control and adjust wastewater treatment processes; Adjusting, monitoring, and responding to normal and abnormal operational situations involving the wastewater collection system, combined sewer overflows, retention basin, diversion structure, remote collection stations, and wastewater treatment plant; Completing visual inspections of assigned duty stations and treatment facilities several times each shift; Perform regular preventative maintenance on plant equipment, structures, tanks, and grounds (groundskeeping and housekeeping); General housekeeping and cleaning in and around wastewater operator control stations; Ability to use and navigate applications and programs on desktop computers, laptop computers, smartphones, tablets, human machine interfaces, programmable logic controllers, and operator interface terminals; Perform complex mathematical calculations to determine areas, volumes, averages, means, geometric means, minimums, maximums, percentages, wastewater flow rates, sludge flow rates, return activated sludge flow rates, waste activated sludge flow rates, filter influent flow rates, pump speeds, blower speeds, chemical demands, chemical dosages, and chemical residuals; Active participation in the stormwater pollution prevention program which includes regular inspections and daily groundskeeping responsibilities; Walking for long periods of times indoors and outdoors, up and down several flights of stairs, during the day or at night, in all types of weather, wearing the appropriate level of personal protective equipment; Active participation in utility wide safety programs; Active participation in employee training programs; Qualifications, Special Certifications and Licenses. 5-point veterans must have been discharged under honorable conditions and had one of the following: Active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States, in a war, or during the period 4/28/52-7/1/55 or active duty for more than 180 consecutive days other than for training, any part of which occurred during the period beginning 2/1/55 and 10/14/76 or active duty during the Gulf War sometime between 8/2/90 - 1/2/92 or active duty in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized or active duty for which more than 180 consecutive days other than for training, any part of which occurred during the period beginning 9/11/2001 and ending on the date prescribed by the Presidential proclamation or by the law as the last date of operation Iraqi Freedom.