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Job Classification Overview – Assistant Environmental Inspector:
Assistant Environmental Inspectors are responsible for collecting industrial and commercial wastewater, stormwater, and Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) samples. They perform basic inspection tasks at industrial, commercial, and food service facilities to determine compliance with local, state, and federal environmental regulations. They also assist with the review of pretreatment systems and grease control devices, including evaluation of pretreatment system performance and review of maintenance and cleaning records.
Workgroup Overviews
Source Control:
This group is responsible for implementing the Pretreatment Program for industrial and commercial discharges to the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility (Facility). The program is required by the Facility's NPDES permit and is aimed at ensuring that certain dischargers have adequate treatment prior to discharge in order to protect water quality and the integrity of the wastewater collection system and the Facility. On an annual basis, this group inspects approximately 350 businesses, collects more than 1,900 water quality samples, and reviews more than 900 self-monitoring reports.
The Assistant Environmental Inspector position for the Source Control team conducts inspections, sampling, and samples preservations of industrial and commercial facilities and associated industrial and commercial wastewater waste streams daily. Inspection and sampling of these facilities includes lifting automatic sampling devices. Additionally, this position is required to collect samples from sanitary sewer waste streams when conducting surveillance monitoring.
Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG):
This group is responsible for an inspection program focused on commercial food service establishments with an emphasis on controls for Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG). This program is required under the City’s Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP). This program provides detailed inspections of more than 4,000 food service establishments in San José.
The Assistant Environmental Inspector position for the FOG team conducts inspections of grease control devices daily (approximately 6 inspections per day). Inspection of these devices requires using a magnetic lifter to remove manhole covers on grease interceptors. Additionally, inspecting grease traps requires the use of hand tools and the ability to remove the device’s lid for inspection.
Stormwater Treatment Measures Operations and Maintenance (STM):
The STM group is responsible for inspecting nearly 4,000 public and private stormwater treatment measures installed throughout San José to ensure that they are operating and maintained in good working order. These devices capture and treat stormwater before it is infiltrated into the native soil or discharged into the storm sewer system for certain new and redevelopment projects.
The Assistant Environmental Inspector position for the STM team is primarily tasked with conducting early outreach and education to property owners regarding maintenance of stormwater treatment measures. Other duties may include inspection of vault-based stormwater treatment systems (i.e., measurement of sediment loadings and assessing condition of devices), receiving and reviewing maintenance documentation, logging the findings into the database, and collecting photographic evidence.
Salary Range
Actual salary shall be determined by the final candidates’ qualifications and experience. The salary range for this classification is:
- $73,881.60 - $89,793.60 Annually
Education: Two (2) years of college, INCLUDING two (2) semesters (or equivalent quarter units) of college level chemistry.
Experience: None
Licenses or Certificates: Possession of a valid State of California driver’s license.
Other Qualifications
Competencies
The ideal candidate will possess the following competencies, as demonstrated in past and current employment history. Desirable competencies for this position include:
- Job Expertise: Demonstrates knowledge of and experience with applicable professional/technical principles and practices, Citywide and departmental procedures/policies and federal and state rules and regulations.
- Teamwork & Interpersonal Skills: Develops effective relationships with co-workers and supervisors by helping others accomplish tasks and using collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
- Customer Service: Demonstrates the ability to anticipate customers' needs and deliver services effectively and efficiently in a timely, accurate, respectful, and friendly manner.
- Conflict Management: Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people, by presenting the facts, analysis, and conclusions or solutions that show command of content and perspectives and interests of the audience.
- Reliability: Completes quality work assignments in a timely and efficient manner; fulfills responsibilities and maintains confidentiality as appropriate.
- Problem Solving: Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue; determines the significance of problem(s); collects information; uses logic and intuition to arrive at decisions or solutions to problems that achieve the desired outcome.
- Computer Skills: Experienced with common business computer applications including but not limited to: Adobe Acrobat, MS Outlook, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS SharePoint, and MS Excel.
- Communication Skills: Communicates and listens effectively and responds in a timely, effective, positive and respectful manner; written reports and correspondence are accurate, complete, current; well-organized, legible, concise, neat, and in proper grammatical form; responds to statements and comments of others in a way that reflects understanding of the content and the accompanying emotion; asks clarifying questions to assure understanding of what the speaker intended, ensures consistent communication takes place within area of responsibility.
Physical Requirements:
The job typically requires physical requirements defined as Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Selection Process:
The selection process will consist of an evaluation of the applicant's training and experience based on the application and responses to all the job specific questions. You must answer all questions to be considered or your application may be deemed incomplete and withheld from further consideration. Only those candidates whose backgrounds best match the position will be invited to proceed in the selection process. Additional phases of the selection process will consist of one or more interviews.
If you have questions about the duties of these positions, the selection or hiring processes, please contact Ernesto Zamaguey at .