drainage engineer
Code 2142.1.3
Drainage engineers design and construct drainage systems for sewers and storm water systems. They evaluate the options to design drainage systems that meet the requirements while ensuring compliance with legislation and environmental standards and policies. Drainage engineers choose the most optimal drainage system to prevent floods, control irrigation and direct sewage away from water sources.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- technical drawings
- flood remediation equipment
- hydraulic fluid
- hydraulics
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- types of pipelines
Skills and competences
- approve engineering design
- create designs for pipeline engineering
- design drainage well systems
- ensure regulatory compliance in pipeline infrastructures
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- ensure compliance with safety legislation
- identify risk of flooding
- survey sites for pipeline installation
- perform scientific research
- adjust engineering designs
- consider the impact of material characteristics on pipeline flows
- use technical drawing software
Transversal competences
- analyse route possibilities in pipeline projects
- mitigate environmental impact of pipeline projects
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences