Diploma of Water Industry Operations

Interpret and comply with regulatory requirements

Develop and maintain a safe workplace

Undertake sampling and testing of water

Manage budgets and financial plans

Support the learning and development of teams and individuals

Lead team effectiveness

Manage people performance

Manage business operational plans

Undertake project work

Facilitate continuous improvement

Manage WHS risks

Lead WHS risk management

Lead initial response to and investigate WHS incidents

Ensure a safe workplace for a work area

Manage WHS consultation and participation processes

Write complex documents

Develop workplace communication strategies

Store and retrieve spatial data

Capture new spatial data

Source, collate and interpret spatial data

Collect, organise and interpret statistical data for work

Manage asset construction and maintenance

Coordinate and monitor groundwater system usage

Analyse and implement network data

Use control centre systems to monitor and control water

Implement and manage environmental management policies

Ensure compliance with water industry standards, guidelines and legislation

Sample and test trade wastewater

Apply principles of open channel hydraulics

Develop and maintain ratings

Plan water resource management

Process and report hydrographic time series data

Measure discharge and process discharge data using a range of methods and equipment

Measure discharge using wading method

Undertake surveying of monitoring sites

Identify and analyse information technology for hydrographic surveys

Interpret and analyse science principles for hydrographic surveying

Manage and analyse water levels and flows

Manage hydrographic surveying projects

Use alternate positioning systems to gather data

Use remote sensing for hydrographic surveying

Use underwater acoustics to map waterways

Develop and review a groundwater plan

Develop and review a surface water plan

Develop and review an irrigation system plan

Implement and coordinate a surface water plan

Implement and coordinate an irrigation delivery system plan

Apply construction principles to civil works in the water industry

Conduct commissioning and post-commissioning activities

Develop and manage a drinking water system plan

Develop and manage a wastewater collection plan

Develop and manage an alternate water supply plan

Establish connections of water and wastewater systems

Develop and manage a catchment plan

Develop and manage a dam safety inspection plan

Develop and manage a flood plan

Implement and coordinate a catchment plan

Implement and coordinate a groundwater plan

Evaluate, implement and monitor high risk trade waste discharge approvals

Implement and manage trade waste policies and plans

Develop and modify trade waste policies and plans

Develop and manage a treatment process monitoring program

Develop and manage a wastewater treatment plan

Develop and manage a water treatment plan

Assess and improve coagulation and flocculation processes

Assess and improve wastewater processes to control microbial impacts

Establish incident response preparedness and response systems

Communicate and monitor pipeline activities

Plan to manage a contract

Develop emergency management plans

Establish and maintain plant, equipment and infrastructure maintenance systems

Contribute to assessment

Facilitate workplace-based learning

Mentor in the workplace

Implement asset management systems

Manage a contract

Assess maintenance spares and manage repairable items

Operate and monitor supervisory control and data acquisition systems

Plan a scheduled outage