STATE OF
HUMAN RESOURCES
CLASSIFICATION: SANITARY ENGINEER II
Class Code: 8042-28 Date Established: 07-01-50
Occupational
Code: 7-5-9 Date of Last Revision: 08-02-11
BASIC PURPOSE: To develop and
evaluate environmental engineering plans and/or designs dealing with public and
private drinking water supply problems, industrial, and municipal wastewater
collection and treatment facilities, storm drainage and erosion control; and to
investigate complaints concerning violations of state water quality standards.
CHARACTERISTIC
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
·
Conducts field
investigations to identify deficiencies and compliance at water systems,
municipal or industrial wastewater treatment facilities to ensure adherence to
permit limitations and water quality standards.
·
Investigates
complaints received from concerned citizens and public officials in order to
determine extent of state water quality standards violations and to identify
the responsible parties; reviews designs for new or expanded water systems,
wastewater systems, or construction and development projects to ensure
consistency with design criteria requirements.
·
Explains
application procedures and program requirements to applicants, attorneys,
consultants, public officials, and concerned citizens in order to enhance the
program's efficiency in protecting the state's water quality.
·
Evaluates
industrial and municipal wastewater discharge monitoring reports and if
necessary, initiates appropriate enforcement action; evaluates federal and
state industrial and municipal discharge permits to ensure that proposed
discharge limitations are capable of meeting water quality standards.
·
Identifies and
evaluates alternative solutions to water system, industrial and municipal
wastewater collection and treatment problems to achieve the protection of
public health and to meet design criteria requirements.
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DISTINGUISHING
FACTORS:
Skill: Requires skill in
analyzing and interpreting data, policy and procedures OR in using equipment in
order to arrive at logical conclusions or recommendations.
Knowledge: Requires logical or
scientific expertise to resolve problems of a specialized or professional
nature in a wide range of applications.
Impact: Requires
responsibility for achieving major aspects of long-range agency objectives by
planning short- and long-term organization goals, reviewing recommendations for
procedural changes, and developing or revising program policies. Errors at this level result in incorrect
decisions at an administrative level, and are detected subsequent to implementation
in an overall evaluation process.
Supervision: Requires direct
supervision of programs or of employees doing work which differs from the
supervisor, including disciplining employees, solving personnel problems,
recommending hiring and terminating employees, and developing work methods. The supervisor in this position manages a
working unit or section with responsibility for employee performance appraisal.
Working
Conditions: Requires performing regular job functions in
an environment which includes exposure to continuous physical elements or a
number of disagreeable working conditions with frequent exposure to minor
injuries or health hazards.
Physical
Demands: Requires medium work, including continuous
strenuous activities such as frequent reaching, bending, or lifting as well as
performing work activities which require fine manual dexterity or coordination
in operating machines or equipment.
Communication: Requires reviewing
summaries and reports and making management level decisions to solve problems
or to achieve work objectives as well as articulating and expressing those
solutions and goals. This level also
requires formal presentations of solutions and goals to employees and the
general public to increase the responsiveness of the agency toward the demands
of its client system.
Complexity: Requires evaluating
a combination of wide-ranging job functions to determine work procedures, to
solve problems, and to reach conclusions by applying analytical, technical, or
scientific thinking. This level also
requires planning policies and long-term strategies, drawing conclusions based
on available criteria, and evaluating the effectiveness of program objectives.
Independent
Action: Requires independent judgment in planning and
evaluating work procedures and in supervising the development of professional,
technical and managerial standards under administrative direction and according
to broad departmental guidelines.
MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Master's degree from
a recognized college or university with a major study in civil, chemical,
sanitary, environmental or public health engineering.
Experience: Five years'
experience as a sanitary, civil, or environmental engineer in a municipal,
state or federal wastewater treatment or water pollution control agency or a
firm of consulting sanitary engineers.
Each additional year of approved work experience may be substituted for
one year of required formal education at the graduate level only.
License/Certification: Possession of a valid
driver's license and/or have access to statewide transportation for statewide
travel. Must either be a Licensed
Professional Engineer in the State of NH, or a Licensed Professional Engineer
in another state and obtain licensure in NH within one year of employment.
RECOMMENDED
WORK TRAITS: Knowledge of the modern principles and
practices of sanitary and environment engineering as applied to public health
including knowledge of water supply, municipal and industrial waste water
collection and treatment, bathing places, water quality management of surface
and underground waters, storm drainage and erosion control. Knowledge of basic engineering principles as
applied to sanitary and environmental engineering including hydraulics, fluid
mechanics, unit operations, engineering drawings, strength of material and
mechanics. Knowledge of the basic
principles of sanitary chemistry, aquatic biology, water bacteriology, physics
and calculus. Knowledge of the functions
of local government, financing of public works and state and federal
legislation pertinent to water pollution control. Knowledge of the relationships in the
environmental conditions to human health.
Ability to conduct technical investigations and inspections applying
engineering principles and procedures.
Ability to make computations and calculations involving the application
of sanitary and environmental engineering mathematics. Ability to analyze and present technical data
in clear, concise engineering reports.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with
associates, government and industrial officials, consulting engineers,
professional and other organizations and individuals and the general
public. Must be willing to maintain appearance
appropriate to assigned duties and responsibilities as determined by the agency
appointing authority.
DISCLAIMER
STATEMENT: This class specification is descriptive of
general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this
class title.
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