Kevin Williams grew up around water treatment plants: His earliest memories include riding in a truck with his dad to locate a water main break.He didn’t choose a career in water treatment out of high school, instead taking computer programming courses at a vocational school in Platte City, Missouri. Finding jobs scarce in that field, he went to W.W. Grainger and worked in assembly, inventory handling and quality control before finding his way to the Kansas City Water Supply Treatment Plant as an operator trainee in 1999.It was the start of a productive career that now spans 16 years of challenges.
