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The City of Newark owns and operates one of the most significant water and sewer utilities in the State of New Jersey. On average, the Newark water system provides potable water of approximately 85 million gallons per day (M.G.D.) supply through over 600 miles of transmission and distribution mains. The Newark sewer system conveys to P.V.S.C. about 70 million gallons per day (M.G.D.), and the total flow discharged to J.M.E.U.C. is approximately 5.5 MGD.

The utility manages 37,000 acres of watershed land consisting of 5 reservoirs holding 5.2 billion gallons of raw water supply. The City of Newark has a residency ordinance and prefers to hire qualified Newark residents for its positions. However, the rule allows residency exceptions.

The City of Newark D.W.S.U. is currently recruiting candidates for entry-level and specialized positions at various operational units. See below for available positions.

Available Positions:

  • This position reports to the Chief Engineer Sewers or assigns alternate, requiring professional and field staff supervision. Requires the ability to interact with vendors, contractors, consultants, the public, and local, County, State, and federal public agency representatives. This position involves planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling, designing, preparing, and completing various engineering projects. This position primarily involves but is not limited to design bidding and construction oversight of municipal potable water and sanitary sewer improvement projects. In addition, reviewing water & sewer engineering aspects of residential and commercial land development applications for compliance with municipal codes and accepted standards, coordinated plan reviews with the other Departments, performed field inspections, and prepared punch lists. Additional duties include preparing the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (N.J.P.D.E.S.) Permit application; The position requires interaction and coordination of responsibilities with all Divisions.

    Requirements: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Master's degree, P.E, or 7 to 10 years of relevant work experience in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering. Involving Water/Waste Water and Storm Water project, design, installation, review

  • This position reports to the Chief Engineer or assigns an alternate, requiring professional and field staff supervision. Graduating from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering requires interacting with vendors, contractors, consultants, the public, and local, County, State, and federal public agency representatives.

  • Graduate of an accredited college/university with a Master's or minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience. Requirements also include:

    o In-depth knowledge of G.I.S. standards and a comprehensive understanding of enterprise systems, technologies, and applications.

    o Familiarity or experience with A.R.C.G.I.S., E.R.S.I., ArcInfo, and AutoCAD (data management)

    o Extensive knowledge of the principal architecture of computer graphics systems and proficiency in developing HTML, tools, and web platforms.

    o Advanced knowledge of leaner reference systems and technologies of G.P.S. data acquisitions (skills should include designing and implementing G.I.S. services of high-end requirements).

    o Strong analytical, comprehensive, communicative, and problem-solving abilities.

  • Graduation from an accredited college with a bachelor's degree in chemical, civil, environmental, or mechanical engineering.

  • Must possess an H.S. Diploma, G.E.D, or the equivalent. 1+ year/s of relevant work-related experience reading blueprints and reviewing maps for utility information is acceptable. Required knowledge and abilities include:

    o Interpretation of G.I.S. data

    o Basic utility infrastructure

    o Use of locating devices

    o Familiarity or understanding of electrical and gas plates from various utility companies

  • Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, management information systems or related technical discipline. Relevant majors include computer science, IT, IS, software engineering.

    Associate's degree in a technical field with minimum GPA of 3.0 plus 2+ years relevant work experience also meets education requirements.

    Industry certifications such as Oracle, Microsoft, Linux, ITIL are a bonus

    Candidate should have experience with:

    o Billing platforms like Oracle C2m or similar.

    o Scripting languages like SQL, PL/SQL.

    o Operating systemLike Windows, Linux.

    o Performance monitoring and tuning.

    o Change control procedures.

    o Working in collaborative team environment.

    Primary Skills:

    o Install, configure and support enterprise billing systems

    o Perform upgrades. Patches, hotfixes on billing platforms like Oracle C2M.

    o Monitor batch jobs, inferfaces for billing operations.

    o Troubleshoot issues, provide production supportfor billing operations.

    o Work on cloning, refreshingtest billing enviroments.

    o Apply recommended patches and hotfixes for billing enviroments application and database.

    o Participate in billing data migration activities.

    o Document billing configurations, processes, issues.

    o Possess understanding of billing system architecture and workflows.

    o Strong communication and analytical skills.

  • Graduate from an accredited college with a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, and Business Administration with at least three years of experience in Finance, Accounting, Budgeting, and Financial Analysis. Requirements must also include but are not limited to the following:

    o Create and process G/L journal entries to ensure timely and accurate reporting of financial data.

    o Perform and review analyses of payroll and G/L accounts; identify and resolve reconciling items and accounting issues on a timely basis.

    o Assist and coordinate information requests for internal and external audits.

    o Assist with year-end balancing and reconciliation for accurate reporting.

    o Maintain monthly posting of Creditable months for RRB reporting.

    o Process daily, weekly, and monthly revenue reports of all incoming receivables

    o Reconcile cash reports from the tax department, Lockbox, E-box, and mail-in payments.

    o Run queries, obtain downloads, and prepare detailed spreadsheets and reports for all levels of management to facilitate the flow of information and resolution of issues about payroll, receivables, and account payables

    o Maintain finance system profile for troubleshooting issues, implementing new processes, and periodic vendor profile upgrades.

    o Miscellaneous projects as requested by Director, Assistant Director, and Senior Management

    o Provide excellent customer service to all internal/external customers

    Additional Experience Requirements:

    o Payroll experience preferred.

    o Must have an intermediate or advanced proficiency level in M.S. Excel.

    o Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  • Must possess an Associate's degree in electronics (or an equivalent) or at least three years of relevant work-related experience. 2 years of electronic repair work of motor controls and transformers are also sufficient. Preferred certifications include Controlled Electronics, Instrumentation, and Programming Logic Controllers. Candidates must be able to:

    o Read blueprints, pipe layouts, electronic and P.I.D. diagrams

    o Troubleshoot, repair, configure and program automated control systems, V.F.D.s, flow/pressure/temperature monitors, process analyzers, S.C.A.D.A (Supervisory and Control Data Acquisition)

  • This individual must be able to perform semi-skilled work in the operation and maintenance of the water treatment plant and related equipment. Clean, service, maintain, and repair plant pumps, valves, motors, and other equipment. Adjust, regulate, and make significant and minor repairs to chemical feed machines, chlorinators, meter indicators, flow meters, and other mechanical equipment. Perform maintenance and repairs on the facility equipment Applicant works under the supervision of the Water Treatment Plant supervisor or Water Treatment plant operator within the water plant operations. The candidate should have knowledge and experience in the maintenance, repair, and installation of water infrastructure or residential/commercial plumbing.

  • Minimum of two years of experience operating, adjusting, regulating, repairing, and maintaining electric motors, pump valves, and other electrical and mechanical equipment used in a water treatment plant, pumping station, or filtration plant. Possession of a New Jersey D.E.P. T1 or higher water treatment license.

  • Graduating from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, environmental science, microbiology, or a closely related scientific field.

    o Understand the procedures, techniques, and equipment used in water treatment labs.

    o Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis, knowledge of federal and state water treatment regulations, and knowledge of organic and inorganic chemistry.

  • Minimum. Thirty-semester hour credits at an accredited college. Eight-semester hour credits in chemistry and a course in organic chemistry may be substituted for the experience.

  • Bilingual in Spanish and English.

    Minimum of one year of experience conducting basic chemical tests on water samples. Thirty-semester hour credits at an accredited college. Eight-semester hour credits in chemistry and a course in organic chemistry may be substituted for the experience.

  • The position will assist in duties associated with sampling collection, general analysis of water samples, responding to customer water quality, and collecting process and regulatory samples at the city-owned facilities.

    Primary Duties / Responsibilities

    o Makes daily visits to Treatment / Distribution System sampling sites, at which time the following duties are performed:

    o Collects weekly samples from the distribution system as assigned and supports the Water Quality / Production Team

    o Tabulates data collected from sampling sites.

    o Collects watershed (river/reservoir) samples for laboratory analyses.

    o Accumulates samples from on Distribution System as required for analyses to support customer water quality inquiries.

    o Makes field determinations of taste and odor, treats samples for dissolved oxygen analysis, and records water temperatures, pH, and chlorine residuals.

    o Ability to effectively communicate with customer

  • Bilingual in Spanish and English.

    o SPECIAL SKILL - Applicants must be able to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in Spanish and English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position.

All positions require a valid State of New Jersey Driver's license. In addition, successful applicants must pass a physical, background check, and drug/alcohol test. Interested candidates may submit their resumes, cover letters (indicate position), and any supporting documents to the attention of Clelia Lourenco via email at waterandsewer@ci.newark.nj.us or mail to 920 Broad Street-Room B31-F, Newark, NJ 07102.