Forming the four-member Poofighters Operations Challenge team was one way the King County Wastewater Treatment Division sought to attract recruits to the industry. The team is named after the Seattle-based Foo Fighters rock band.“Like wastewater facilities nationwide, King County is losing experienced professionals to retirement and competing with other agencies for quality candidates,” says Suzanne Potts, process laboratory specialist III at the division’s South Plant in Renton. “The vision is to provide learning and training experiences for employees, showcase wastewater careers as dynamic and fun, and promote King County as a great place to work.”The Poofighters train for the annual
Poofighters Operations Challenge Team Showcases Careers in Wastewater
Process laboratory specialist Suzanne Potts is part of an effort to attract new people to the profession by showing wastewater careers as dynamic and fun
Jan 15, 2018
| by Scottie Dayton |
