Franklin Histed
Altamont,TN
Summary
Highly motivated and reliable plant manager with 20 years of experience. Strong interpersonal communication, teamwork, leadership, strategic planning, budget planning, and customer service skills. Passionate about helping people and the environment through improving and maintaining plants to ensure compliance, assets management, sustainability, lower waste, process, and chemicals cost. Improve Standard of pr0cedures, SDS, Processing, and QA/QC lab practice.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead operator
Clearwater solutions LLC
02.2025
- Manage the plants and do testing, process, maintenance, SOPs, MORs, DMRs for all plants. Train new employees in lab, maintenance, and processing. Approval of all invoices, and contractors. Name of the plants are Grassland WWTP, Franklin TN, Chapel Wood WWTP, Chapel Hill TN, Hideaway WWTP, College Grove TN, Arrington WWTP, Arrington TN, Hardeman WWTP, Nolensville TN. Planning to obtain collection and grade 4 licenses this year.
Wastewater Superintend
Village of Bellevue WWTP
03.2023 - 12.2024
- Manage the plant, lift stations, safety, trainer, administrative, maintenance, tourer, lab management, and coordinate with engineers.
- Improve process, budget cost, and cut chemicals cost down by 40 percent.
- Train new employees to do lab work, process work, and maintenance work.
- QA/QC lab technician, preventive maintenance, digester process expertise
- Instruct new staff on lab, state, and maintenance paperwork.
- Prep new employees to take state tests.
Project Manager
Tawas and East Tawas Wastewater Treatment Plant
09.2021 - 01.2023
- Manage plant operations, maintenance, safety, administration, and related duties.
- Improve process, budget, maintenance, and chemicals cost by 20%.
- Improve violations from 64 violations to 2 violations in one and half years.
- Resumed in-house lab testing: CBOB, PH, D.O., chloride residue, phosphate ammonia, suspended solids, volatile content, SVI, SDI, MLVSS, MLSS, QA/QC, control limits, percent total solids, and removal percentage.
- Updated all standard operating procedures and developed a new one focused on employee distribution.
- Update the budget yearly, and a new Capital Improvement Plan.
- $46,000 saved on maintenance repairs in one year.
- Provide plant tours for board members, the public, and students to highlight essential repairs, noting no improvements in 33 years.
- Bio-solids handling, and process.
- Without CIP, the plant will fail and employees may be injured or the process could violate NPDES permit limits.
Plant Manager
Glien River Sewer District (GRSD) Sewer Authority
09.2017 - 05.2020
- Managed daily operations of wastewater plant. Including maintenance, repairs, and administrative duties, assets management, finances, contractors, permitting, and reports to the board of Directors.
- Developed a capital improvement plan and coordinated between GRSD and local cities and townships
- Implemented an improved treatment process to increase company profits by 30_%
- Provided excellent customer service and improved customer satisfaction by 50%
- Assisted plants with solving compliance, process treatments, sewer overflow problems, and maintenance programs.
- Evaluated budget and developed plans that lowered costs and improved company expectations, without extra expenses.
- Obtained a new permit (NPDES) (Storm Drain Discharge), and local limits.
- Developed a 20-year plant budget and 30-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP).
Lab tech, maintenance, plant, bio-solids operator
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe
04.2011 - 09.2017
- New NPDES permit, heavy-equipment operator, budget planning, lab tech, and MDRs.
- Lift stations, pumps, sand filters, and UV rebuilt
- No permits violations or (SSO), sanitary sewer overflows, during Mt. Pleasant flood
Education
High School Diploma -
Beecher High School
Skills
- Plant Management, Production Management, Maintenance, Interpersonal Communication, Organization, Leadership, Blueprints, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, GIS, 5S, Six Sigma, Microsoft Office Suite, regulatory requirements, FOG applications, SCADA, and telemetry Operate effectively in an economically and culturally diverse environment Contract administration, overseeing construction projects, and asset management
- Multitasking Abilities
- Reliability
- Excellent communication
- Punctuality
- Worksite safety
- Punctual and reliable
- Problem-solving abilities
- Teamwork
- Estimating
- Material handling
- Teamwork and coordination
- Control system monitoring
- Maintenance and repair
- Advanced troubleshooting
- Operational documentation
- Contract management
- Process control
- Mechanical understanding
- Safety compliance
- Lockout and tagout processes
- Team player
Accomplishments
Keeping the drinking water supply to the Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston base, during an 24 inches pipe line burst, by reroute the water backward in the system. Not having any sanitary sewer overflows at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe during the Mt. Pleasant city major rain event, by keeping my polishing ponds at a very low levels for overflows. Reducing the violations at Glien River Sewer District and getting a 53.3 millions Capital Improvement Plan approved by the residents. At East Tawas wastewater plan violations from 64 a year to 2 a year, and proving to them that they didn't need more storage, but to supernate the storage unit more often.
Certification
Heavy equipment,backflow, and water operator at Fort Sam Houston. United State Army Honorable discharge and telecommunications operator. ROV, fiber optic installer operator at robotic institute. Michigan class B wastewater, and storm drain operator, I.D. NO. 18791. Tennessee wastewater operator WW3, I.D. NO. 122417. Alabama wastewater level 3, I.D> NO. C011940.
Military Service
- Branch: United States Army 1983-1989
- Discharge: Honorable
- Communications specialist
Timeline
Lead operator
Clearwater solutions LLC
02.2025
Wastewater Superintend
Village of Bellevue WWTP
03.2023 - 12.2024
Project Manager
Tawas and East Tawas Wastewater Treatment Plant
09.2021 - 01.2023
Plant Manager
Glien River Sewer District (GRSD) Sewer Authority
09.2017 - 05.2020
Lab tech, maintenance, plant, bio-solids operator
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe
04.2011 - 09.2017
High School Diploma -
Beecher High School