Profession water plant technician

Water plant technicians maintain and repair water treatment and supply equipment in a water plant. They ensure the provision of clean water by measuring the water quality, ensuring it is filtered and treated correctly, and maintaining distribution systems.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Realistic
• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Water policies

  Have a solid understanding of policies, strategies, institutions, and regulations concerning water.

• Water pressure

  Physical laws, qualities and applications of liquid or water pressure.

Skills

• Operate pumping systems

  Operate pumps and piping systems, including control systems. Perform routine pumping operations. Operate the bilge, ballast and cargo pumping systems. Be familiar with oily-water separators (or-similar equipment).

• Measure water quality parameters

  Quality assure water by taking into consideration various elements, such as temperature.

• Ensure compliance with environmental legislation

  Monitor activities and perform tasks ensuring compliance with standards involving environmental protection and sustainability, and amend activities in the case of changes in environmental legislation. Ensure that the processes are compliant with environment regulations and best practices.

• Monitor water quality

  Measure water quality: temperature, oxygen, salinity, pH, N2, NO2,NH4, CO2, turbidity, chlorophyll. Monitor microbiological water quality.

• Maintain water storage equipment

  Perform routine maintenance tasks, identify faults, and perform repairs on equipment which is used to store wastewater and water prior to treatment or distribution.

• Maintain water distribution equipment

  Perform routine maintenance tasks, identify flaws, and perform repairs on the equipment used in the supply and distribution of clean water.

• Troubleshoot

  Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

• Maintain specified water characteristics

  Turn valves and place baffles in troughs to adjust the volume, depth, discharge, and temperature of water as specified.

• Operate hydraulic machinery controls

  Use correctly the controls of specialized machinery by turning valves, handwheels, or rheostats to move and control flow of fuels, water, and dry or liquid binders to machines.

• Maintain water treatment equipment

  Perform repairs and routine maintenance tasks on equipment used in the purification and treatment processes of water and waste water.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB