Certificate III in Water Industry Operations

Participate in WHS hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control processes

Assess, implement and report environmental procedures

Follow basic chemical safety rules

Implement erosion and sediment control measures

Organise workplace information

Deliver and monitor a service to customers

Process customer complaints

Coordinate business operational plans

Organise personal work priorities

Work effectively with others

Apply knowledge of WHS laws in the workplace

Contribute effectively to WHS communication and consultation processes

Assist with maintaining workplace safety

Handle construction materials

Calculate costs of construction work

Remove non-friable asbestos

Remove friable asbestos

Remove non-friable asbestos

Remove friable asbestos

Supervise asbestos removal

Licence to perform dogging

Carry out measurements and calculations

Apply WHS requirements, policies and procedures in the construction industry

Conduct a water audit and identify water-saving initiatives

Prepare to work safely in the construction industry

Assess household water use and efficiency improvements

Apply an expanding range of arithmetical calculations for work

Trim and cut felled trees

Trim and cut felled trees

Operate breathing apparatus

Respond to blue-green algae outbreaks

Control vegetation on a site

Identify and confirm blue-green algae outbreaks

Monitor and coordinate catchment operations

Monitor and control dam operations

Monitor and implement dam maintenance

Inspect and report on concrete dam safety

Inspect and report on embankment dam safety

Route floods through storages

Conduct and report dam safety instrumentation monitoring

Inspect and report river performance

Operate and maintain locks and weirs

Operate and maintain fishways

Operate and maintain salt interception works

Monitor and operate bulkwater transfer systems

Monitor and operate groundwater extraction

Inspect and operate groundwater regulation

Apply the risk management principles of the water industry standards, guidelines and legislation

Sample and test source or drinking water

Sample and test wastewater

Perform laboratory testing

Use maps, plans, drawings and details

Identify the role and functions of the water industry

Apply principles of chemistry to water systems and processes

Provide and promote customer service

Monitor and operate pump stations

Investigate and report on breaches of water industry legislation

Operate and maintain flood warning sites

Monitor and operate rural irrigation and domestic delivery systems

Inspect and operate water diversion systems

Install meters for rural water supplies

Maintain meters for rural water supplies

Detect and rectify faults with automated channel regulators

Monitor and conduct maintenance on rural irrigation assets

Monitor and control drainage operations

Monitor and control rural water distribution operations

Monitor and schedule water deliveries

Disinfect network assets

Prepare and restore worksite

Monitor and operate network systems

Identify and respond to water quality problems

Perform leak detection

Inspect sewer or stormwater assets

Maintain and repair network assets for wastewater

Install, maintain and repair hydrants

Monitor and control vacuum sewer systems

Monitor and operate water distribution systems

Monitor and operate wastewater collection and transfer systems

Test and commission water distribution systems

Test and commission wastewater collection systems

Clean networks using air scouring, chemical or swabbing techniques

Maintain and repair network assets for drinking water

Maintain network assets using high pressure water systems

Use digital imaging equipment in the field

Control electrical risk on network pipes

Perform odour and infiltration investigations

Monitor and operate water treatment processes

Monitor and operate fluoride addition processes

Monitor and operate liquefied chlorine gas disinfection processes

Operate and control iron and manganese removal processes

Operate and control coagulation and flocculation processes

Operate and control sedimentation and clarification processes

Operate and control dissolved air flotation processes

Operate and control activated carbon processes

Operate and control ion exchange and softening processes

Operate and control granular media filters

Operate and control membrane filters

Operate and control desalination processes

Monitor and operate hypochlorite disinfection processes

Monitor and operate ultraviolet processes

Operate and control chloramination processes

Monitor and operate ozone processes

Monitor and operate wastewater treatment processes

Operate and control reclaimed water irrigation

Operate and control odour removal processes

Operate and control activated sludge processes

Operate and control nutrient removal processes

Operate and control fixed film processes

Operate and control solids handling processes

Operate and control digestion processes

Operate and control incineration processes

Monitor, operate and control lagoon processes

Join polyethylene plastic pipelines using butt welding

Join polyethylene plastic pipelines using electrofusion welding

Install polyethylene plastic pipelines for pressurised applications

Install PVC plastic pipelines for pressurised applications

Conduct patching operations

Carry out manual excavation

Spread and compact materials manually

Carry out basic levelling

Carry out concrete work

Install trench support

Construct and dismantle fences and gates

Install stormwater systems

Install pre-cast gully pits

Install pre-cast access chambers

Install signs

Maintain drainage systems

Lay pavers

Handle concrete materials

Use concreting materials and equipment

Implement civil construction plans

Conduct basic scaffolding operations

Load and unload plant

Conduct pipe layer operations

Respond to site based spills

Use hand and power tools

Operate small plant and equipment

Enter and work in confined spaces

Work safely at heights

Implement traffic management plans

Drain and dewater civil construction sites

Store and handle dangerous goods and hazardous substances

Licence to operate a slewing mobile crane (up to 60 tonnes)