EditorialBringing Innovation To Operation And Maintenance Bringing Innovation To Operation And Maintenance Hard work, creative problem-solving and a quest to continually improve bring honors for Oregon collections operator. Appeared in print as "Master Of His Trade" By Erik Gunn February 2015 Cover Story Order Digital Reprints Want a PDF of this article as it appeared in print? Order Here! Filed Under Sign Me Up! Join your colleagues who already get great content delivered right to their inbox. Sign up Digital! If you don't want to bring your iPad into the bathroom, we can send you a magazine subscription for free! Subscribe to Print! The City of Redmond Public Works wastewater collections staff includes (from left) collections system operator Dave Wegener, collections coordinator Bill Strait, collections system operator Mark James, and collections system operator Mark Thacker. Mark James has hauled hay, worked in construction and even spent time as an underwater welder and commercial diver. But for sheer interest as well as benefit to the community, he’ll put his current job up against all of those any day. James, 48, is a sewer maintenance worker... Please login or register to view MSW articles. It's free, fast and easy! Popular Stories November 21, 2024 From Classroom to Control Room: How VR is Shaping Operator Training November 21, 2024 News Briefs: Federal Probe Finds 'Critical' Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Nearly 100 Water Systems November 19, 2024 Eyes in the Sky: How Drones Revolutionize Hard-to-Reach Inspections November 19, 2024 Grand Prairie, Texas, Wins 2024 Tank of the Year November 18, 2024 NASTT Midwest Chapter to Hold Trenchless Technology Workshop in Indianapolis November 14, 2024 PFAS and Beyond: What’s on the Regulatory Horizon for 2024? Discussion Comments on this site are submitted by users and are not endorsed by nor do they reflect the views or opinions of COLE Publishing, Inc. Comments are moderated before being posted. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments.