Jim Baird has a passion for operator education.
As engineering and operations manager for the Roseburg (Oregon) Urban Sanitary Authority, he manages the engineering and collections teams in all aspects of operation, maintenance and construction. He also oversees the authority’s $1.4 million annual contract with CH2M to operate the wastewater treatment plant.
His other job — the volunteer work that gets him animated — is making sure water and wastewater operators get the training and education they need to be successful. “As vice president of Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association, I spent the past year going to as many short schools and
