Explore career opportunities at King County’s wastewater utility

King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division has career opportunities available for qualified, motivated professionals who share the agency’s passion for clean water, a healthy environment and technical innovation.

King County is nestled between the Cascade Mountains and Puget Sound in western Washington state. With a population of 1.8 million people, the county is a major Pacific Northwest business center that boasts an exceptional quality of life with easy access to both urban amenities and rugged natural beauty.

“There’s been dramatic population growth in the Puget Sound region over the past 20 years, and that’s increased demand for wastewater services,” said Wastewater Treatment Division Director Christie True, noting the agency’s ambitious $4.5 billion capital program to add needed capacity and ensure the system continues operating reliably.

“At the same time, we created several new positions during a recent reorganization of our agency,” said True. “We’re seeking people to help us meet new forward-thinking goals that include creating resources from the wastewater we treat, increasing business efficiencies and expanding our focus on stakeholders and the public.”

Current job opportunities include a wastewater treatment plant manager to oversee the management of a regional wastewater treatment plant and offsite facilities serving 1.4 million people, as well as an assistant plant manager to provide leadership and direct overall operation and administration.

Other positions include a strategic policy planning officer position to advise the division’s director on intergovernmental and other external affairs, and two upper-level professional engineering positions in the county’s Operations and Maintenance Reliability Program to help develop a long-term asset management plan for the division’s non-equipment assets, such as conveyance pipelines, buildings and structures.

There will also be several positions available in the division’s newly established Project Planning and Delivery Section.
More information about these and other positions is available Web at http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/hr/career.htm or by calling the King County Application Request Line at 206-205-8782.

People enjoy clean water and a healthy environment because of King County's wastewater treatment program. The county’s Wastewater Treatment Division protects public health and water quality by serving 17 cities, 17 local sewer districts and more than 1.4 million residents in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties. Formerly called Metro, the regional clean-water agency now operated by King County has been preventing water pollution for more than 40 years.