As a Buyer I, you will perform miscellaneous purchasing and expediting activities such as contacting suppliers; negotiating pricing, terms, and conditions; and collecting, inputting, maintaining, and reporting purchase information. You will also be responsible for processing purchases of materials, supplies, equipment, non-professional and minor construction services in accordance with specifications and scopes of work to support operations. Additionally, you will investigate and correct purchasing and invoicing discrepancies, and maintain or assistant in the maintenance of purchase order files, credit card audits, and related records. In this position you will make use of your exceptional skills in oral/written communication, customer service, organization and analysis, and attention...

The Executive Assistant I position directly supports the Assistant General Manager/EO. This is a critical position that will require you to manage information of a sensitive, highly confidential and detailed-oriented nature. Key responsibilities will include scheduling and maintaining demanding meeting calendars; compiling meeting materials; coordinating travel arrangements; prioritizing and handling all incoming information; initiating follow-ups on projects/tasks to ensure deadlines are met; preparing email correspondence to staff, Board of Directors, Member Agency Managers and others; distributing department information and informing the Executive Managers of all pending activities; recommending innovative solutions and responding to inquiries including providing explanations to...

As an Administrative Assistant II you will perform a wide variety of administrative duties in support of the Water Operation Groups: Integrated Operations Planning Services and Support, Water Treatment and Water Quality, Conveyance & Distribution. The position will report to our Union Station Headquarters location and may require occasional travel to other facilities. You’ll be primarily responsible for supporting the Group Management personnel in assisting with various administrative functions including meeting/event management, purchasing, preparing reports and letters, assisting with spreadsheets, filing, etc. Within this position, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your business office and administrative acumen, attention to detail, communication, customer service,...

The Operations & Maintenance Technician III (Carpenter), utilizes and advances carpentry skills, experience and knowledge in the practices, procedures, and methods of building, repairing, and renovating structures and their associated parts. Those skills include rough, finished and bench carpentry as well as cement placement and finishing and masonry. Performs practices and procedures of installing, improving, maintaining, and repairing a wide variety of rough and general carpentry services and products including concrete structure formwork, concrete step formwork, flatwork formwork, rebar placement, concrete placement, and concrete finishing. Performs concrete work including mixing cement, concrete demolition, concrete saw cutting, and concrete core drilling.Builds, maintains, and...

The Associate Chemist position is an intermediate level position located at the Skinner Treatment Plant laboratory in Winchester, California. This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with drinking water regulations, supporting treatment plant operations, performing routine compliance and non-compliance water quality analyses (e.g., sampling and analyzing chemistry and microbiology samples), and performing job duties that will ensure the treatment plant laboratory is in compliance with the Division of Drinking Water's Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program requirements. This position will work independently under the direct supervision of the Treatment Plant Laboratory Team Manager and maintain close working relationships with personnel in Water Treatment and Water...

This Real Estate Representative II in the Land Management Unit of the Real Property Group will assist with real property secondary use and land management assignments. Responsibilities include assisting with the preparation and processing of leases, licenses, permits, easements, encroachment, trespassing and lease compliance documents as well as reviewing appraisals, negotiating, and managing real estate transactions. This position will also assist in performing due diligence activities such as researching and analyzing public records, title reports, drawings, maps and legal descriptions to identify ownership, property condition and property rights. Additional responsibilities include calculating and reconciling rental billings and property assessments. Applicants at this level...

As a Public Affairs Representative II, you will support Metropolitan’s integrated communications program, which includes written, visual, online, and social media content that provides clear messaging on key water management and related issues to reach various demographic groups and ethnic communities through Southern California’s diverse media market. In this role, you will help write and edit a variety of public-facing communications products such as articles, fact sheets, newsletters, scripts and talking points for internal and external uses as well as materials and content for strategic reports, district websites (mwdh2o.com, bewaterwise.com) and social media. As part of your duties, you will work with Water Resource Management to support water use efficiency programs and water...

As a Security Specialist you will be responsible for ensuring the protection of Metropolitan assets, employees, and visitors primarily within Metropolitan’s Headquarters and the Pure Water facility located at the Los Angeles County Sanitation District’s Joint Water Pollution Control Plant in the city of Carson. You will be relied upon as a subject matter expert in the security disciplines of physical security, investigations, and loss prevention. You will lead regular, temporary, and contract security workers at various facilities as you coordinate and review work assignments on a day-to-day basis.In this position you will be required to demonstrate your capability to respond to pressing and demanding situations; exercise good judgment; serve as the agent on call for 24 hours (standby...

As an IT Enterprise Application Analyst III (PeopleSoft), you will be responsible for supporting Human Resources, Benefits and Payroll modules in PeopleSoft. This includes working with business users to understand the requirements and design, build, integrate, and implement solutions. Additional responsibilities include implementing new functionalities, participating in upgrading applications and keeping up-to-date on tools and technologies. Work is performed using PeopleTools, SQR, SQL, and XML. Schedule: 9/80 Monday through Friday with every other Friday off This job announcement has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this classification / job.To view the full job description click here:IT Enterprise Application...

The IT Support Analyst III will assist with user and system access within MWD's infrastructure and assign levels of privilege to system administrators. This position will also help with onboarding, creating and managing service accounts, the vaulting server, creating group policies and for issuing and revoking internal certificates, and deprovisioning users as necessary. This analyst will be responsible for running the Quarterly Access Audit: PeopleSoft, EBS, WINS and AD audits. The IT Support Analyst III must be able to use Active Directory, Tanium, and the vaulting server. Schedule: 9/80 Monday through Friday with every other Friday offThis job announcement has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this classification...

As a Principal Information Technology Analyst (Server Administration), you will be responsible for technical areas including Windows servers, Active Directory, and Exchange administration, VMware infrastructure, Unix/Linux, Storage Administration (SAN/NAS), Data Protection (Netbackup/Rubrik/Avepoint), Disaster Recovery, Cloud Infrastructure (Azure, OCI). In this role, you will function as a senior project member as you provide guidance and recommendations for technology designs and solutions to your team. Responsibilities include leading on complex technology initiatives and project teams, including the development of schedules, project plans, proposals, budgets, and status reports.This job announcement has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being...

As a Principal Administrative Analyst, you will configure Oracle setups in Procurement and Inventory modules, help users create test cases and assist during User Acceptance Testing (UAT), debug/triage production issues, maintain supplier/vendor database, troubleshoot system problems, act as a help desk for user related issues, process system approval levels, process workflow modifications to requisition and purchase order transactions, process payee requests, establish and run Oracle reports, manage various purchase order processes critical to the acquisition of goods and services, provide end user support and training, coordinate with IT and business on completing enhancements and bug fixes, and serve as a key resource in developing functional requirements and testing system...

The Hydroelectric Specialist I utilizes journey level electrical skills, experience and knowledge in the practices and procedures of installing, commissioning, testing, maintaining, troubleshooting and operating complex power systems equipment for ongoing operations reliability and uninterrupted service. This includes substation equipment, generation equipment, distribution equipment and protection relay equipment. In this position, you will perform maintenance of equipment at the District’s hydroelectric plants, pumping plants, treatments plants, and other facilities. You will install, maintain, test, adjust, troubleshoot, and repair substation equipment which includes transformers, regulators, load tap changers, circuit brakers and switches, motor-operated and manual switches, bus...

The Senior Environmental Specialist will be responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations in Metropolitan Water District’s (MWD) Desert operations area, which includes the Colorado River Aqueduct and associated facilities. This position will report to and require full-time work at MWD’s Desert facilities, including Hinds, Eagle Mountain, Iron Mountain, Gene, and Intake pumping plants, and along the Colorado River Aqueduct and associated electrical transmission line alignments. The Senior Environmental Specialist will be the Environmental Planning Section point of contact and will oversee all environmental planning work for both operations and maintenance (O&M) activities and capital investment plan (CIP) projects in MWD’s Desert operations...

The Assistant Engineer II position is with the Operations Compliance Team in Water Quality Section, located in La Verne, California.  This team ensures the satisfaction of Metropolitan’s customers, member agencies, sub-agencies, and drinking water consumers in relation to water quality. The Assistant Engineer will serve as a Water Quality liaison for the Water Treatment Section and Conveyance and Distribution Section within the Metropolitan Water District to support operation of water treatment plants and distribution system, ensuring continued compliance with current and future drinking water regulations. The Assistant Engineer will assist with reviewing and summarizing water treatment plant operations data, assist in conducting full-scale evaluations and process optimization...

The Water Quality Technician II position will support the Grace F. Napolitano Pure Water Southern California Innovation Center Demonstration Facility located at the A. K. Warren Water Resource Facility in Carson, CA and requires skills in instrumentation and control, electrical, and electronic/communication equipment to support facility operations and testing.  In this position you will assist with preventative and corrective maintenance, regularly monitor, inspect, test, calibrate and record readings for a variety of instruments and electrical systems to ensure reliable equipment life and service expectations of on meters/switches and sensors (e.g. for flow, level, pressure), motors, compressors, valves, pumps, chemical storage and feed systems, geared drive equipment, piping systems...

The Principal IT Analyst (Cybersecurity) is for a cybersecurity technical expert with experience in Cloud Security Administration. This individual will be responsible for the design, security access and implementation of cybersecurity measures and controls on Metropolitan cloud tenants such as, but not limited to Azure and M365 Security and Management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This position will also be responsible to manage Active Directory Group Policy.This position is a resident authority for the development, implementation, and support efforts. In addition, this role identifies products and develops strategies for remediation and resolution of cloud cybersecurity issues and events developing and updating documents related to the cybersecurity...