Wastewater treatment operator
Code 3132.4
Wastewater treatment operators operate equipment used in a water or wastewater plant. They treat and clean drinking water before it is distributed to the consumer and process wastewater to remove harmful substances before returning it to rivers and seas. They take samples and perform tests to analyse the water quality.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- water chemistry analysis
Skills and competences
- perform water chemistry analysis
- perform water treatments
- monitor water quality
- dispose of sewage sludge
- interpret scientific data to assess water quality
- maintain water treatment equipment
- measure water quality parameters
- carry out waste water treatment
- operate water purifying equipment
- perform water treatment procedures
- use water disinfection equipment
Transversal competences
- document analysis results
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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