Profession water treatment systems operator

Water treatment system operators treat water to ensure safety for drinking, irrigation, or other use. They operate and maintain water treatment equipment and ensure the water is safe for bottling and use in food production by thoroughly testing before distribution, and by meeting environmental standards.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Water reuse

  Principles of water re-use processes in complex circulation systems.

• Beverages filtration processes

  Safe and economic method for removing impurities from food products and extending its shelf life. Importance of contamination control and how it contributes to superior quality product, a significant reduction of waste and a minimum of product spoilage.

• 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

• Follow hygienic procedures during food processing

  Ensure a clean working space according to hygienic standards in the food processing industry.

• Adhere to organisational guidelines

  Adhere to organisational or department specific standards and guidelines. Understand the motives of the organisation and the common agreements and act accordingly.

• Operate water purifying equipment

  Operate and adjust equipment controls to purify and clarify water, process and treat wastewater, air and solids, recycle or discharge treated water, and generate power.

• Apply HACCP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).

• Perform water treatments

  Perform regularly water testing, ensuring that water management and filtration processes follow reasonable management practices, industry standards, or commonly accepted farming practices. Record previous water contaminations, the source of contamination and contamination remedied. Take mitigation measures to guard against further contamination.

• Measure water quality parameters

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

• Tend beverage gasifier equipment

  Tend beverage gasifier equipment which is usually made by a machine coupled with a gasifier.

• Boil water

  Boil water in large quantities in the context of manufacturing or food production (e.g. almond blanching).

• Check bottles for packaging

  Check bottles for packaging. Apply bottle testing procedures to verify if the bottle is fit for containing food and beverage products. Follow legal or company specifications for bottling.

• Clean food and beverage machinery

  Clean machinery used for food or beverage production processes. Prepare the appropriate solutions for cleaning. Prepare all parts and assure that they are clean enough to avoid deviation or errors in the production process.

• Use water disinfection equipment

  Operate equipment for water disinfection, using different methods and techniques, such as mechanical filtration, depending on needs.

• Exert quality control to processing food

  Ensure the quality of all factors involved in a food production process.

• Perform water treatment procedures

  Perform operations such as filtering, sterilising, and dechlorinating in order to purify water for consumption and food production using different procedures and technologies such as micro-filtration, reverse osmosis, ozonation, carbon filtration, or ultraviolet (UV) light.

• Perform carbonation processes

  Perform carbonation processes which refer to the infusion of carbon dioxide under high pressure in order to obtain effervescent beverages such as sodas, sparkling wines, and beverages.

• Measure water flow

  Measure water flow, water intakes and catchments.

• Disassemble equipment

  Disassembles equipment using hand tools in order to clean equipments and to perform regular operational maintenance.

• Strive to conserve the composition of water

  Strive not to unnecessarily alter the composition of the water when removing undesirable constituents.

• Apply GMP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

• Apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages

  Apply and follow national, international, and internal requirements quoted in standards, regulations and other specifications related with manufacturing of food and beverages.

• Filter liquids

  Separated solids that will not readily sediment from their suspending liquid by passing the mixture through filters.

• 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.

• Be at ease in unsafe environments

  Be at ease in unsafe environments like being exposed to dust, rotating equipment, hot surfaces, sub-freezing and cold storage areas, noise, wet floors and moving lift equipment.

• Separate unstable elements in the water

  Use the adequate equipment to separate unstable elements in water such as iron and sulphur compounds by filtration or decanting.

• Manage desalination control system

  Manage a system for the removal of salt in order to obtain potable water.

• Operate a heat treatment process

  Apply heat treatment aimed at preparing and preserving half-finished or finished food products.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB