Eugene/Springfield Water Pollution Control Facility 1984-1991

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Page 46 The Equipment Maintenance staff works a five day, 40-hour week, Monday through Friday, start- ing at 7:45 a.m. and ending at 4:15 p.m. All employees are on a rotating schedule for after-hour emergencies. The emergency call-out system uses a rotating card file. Employees' cards are labeled according to their ^ FACILITIES Equipment Maintenance personnel work in a large maintenance building, which includes a 4,200- square-foot high bay, instrument and electrical shops, a paint room, a workroom, a conference room, an employee lunchroom, and four offices for the Equipment and Facilities Maintenance super- visors and the lead workers. The storeroom is also a part of the Maintenance building, allowing con- venient access for maintenance personnel -the storeroom's most frequent customers. In addition, a vehicle service garage, a steamcleaningbuilding, and an oil storage building provide work and stor- age areas for specialized needs. The high bay has afour-ton capacity bridge crane to lift and maneuver the heavy equipment that comes in for repairs. The high bay area also houses specialized tools and machine shop equipment. The northeast corner of the area houses the weld- ing and metal fabrication work areas. The north andwestwalls are divided into sevenwork stations that provide tool storage areas for the general maintenance technicians. The instrument shop has a separate work area for the instrument technicians, where a variety of testing and calibration equipment, metering de- vices, and special tools are used and maintained. The electrical shop is designed and equipped to meet the special needs of the maintenance electri- cians. The paint room is used exclusively for painting and coating activities and is shared with the Facility ^ EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS Section F: EQuir~vz Mnnvz~v~uvcB area of maintenance responsibility. During an emer- gency, the employee whose card is at the front of the file is called. If he or she cannot be reached, the next employee in the file is called. The card of the employee who handles the emergency is then placed at the back of the file. This system equitably distributes emergency call-outs and overtime. Maintenance staff. The room was specifically de- signed for painting and is equipped with a fume hood; an overhead sprinkler system; flammable liquid storage cabinets; and hazardous waste stor- age for waste paint, thinners, and spent solvent. A recent expansion of the Maintenance building included the addition of an employee lunchroom and a workroom for Maintenance personnel. The workroom houses a plant process computer work station, amini-computer terminal, and associated printers and copiers. The new lunchroom will be used by both the Equipment Maintenance and Facilities Maintenance employees. Maintenance and repair of all Wastewater Divi- sion vehicles and heavy equipment occur in the vehicle service garage. The garage mechanic also manages the fueling station, which consists of pumps and two underground tanks for storing gasoline and diesel fuel. Before the on-site service garage was constructed and the vehicle mechanic hired, all vehicle and heavy equipment maintenance was done off-site by Public Works Maintenance staff. The availabil- ity of an on-site garage and mechanic has resulted insignificant service and resource improvements. The steam cleaning building consists of three open bays and is shared by Facilities Maintenance and Equipment Maintenance staff. Only one bay is actually used for steam cleaning operations; the other two are storage areas for equipment and materials. An oil storage building houses all equip- mentoils and lubricants. ` The maintenance technicians use a variety of brazing, or metal cutting operation, using MIG and I ! equipmentandspecializedtools.Themaintenance TIG wire welders, electrical stick welders, arc shop can perform almost any type of welding, metal cutters, metal cut-off saws, and pipe thread-