wastewater treatment technician
ISCO: 3132. Skills: 30. Essential: 13.
Essential skills
- apply health and safety standards
- ensure equipment maintenance
- interpret scientific data to assess water quality
- keep records of work progress
- maintain desalination control system
- maintain records of maintenance interventions
- maintain specified water characteristics
- maintain water treatment equipment
- monitor water quality
- replace machines
- report test findings
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- use testing equipment
Supporting skills
- dispose of sewage sludge
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- ensure proper water storage
- laboratory techniques
- maintain water storage equipment
- operate hydraulic machinery controls
- operate pumping equipment
- operate sewage treatment plans on ships
- operate water purifying equipment
- percolation
- perform sample testing
- perform water treatments
- prepare samples for testing
- repair plumbing systems
- test samples for pollutants
- use personal protection equipment
- use water disinfection equipment