Water plant technician jobs in Finland
Water plant technicians maintain and repair water treatment and supply equipment in a water plant. They ensure the provision of clean water by measuring the water quality, ensuring it is filtered and treated correctly, and maintaining distribution systems.
Water plant technician - Which skills are essential?
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.
Physical laws, qualities and applications of liquid or water pressure.
Perform repairs and routine maintenance tasks on equipment used in the purification and treatment processes of water and waste water.
Quality assure water by taking into consideration various elements, such as temperature.
Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.
Have a solid understanding of policies, strategies, institutions, and regulations concerning water.
Perform routine maintenance tasks, identify faults, and perform repairs on equipment which is used to store wastewater and water prior to treatment or distribution.
Perform routine maintenance tasks, identify flaws, and perform repairs on the equipment used in the supply and distribution of clean water.
Turn valves and place baffles in troughs to adjust the volume, depth, discharge, and temperature of water as specified.
Operate pumps and piping systems, including control systems. Perform routine pumping operations. Operate the bilge, ballast and cargo pumping systems. Be familiar with oily-water separators (or-similar equipment).
use correctly the controls of specialized machinery by turning valves, handwheels, or rheostats to move and control flow of fuels, water, and dry or liquid binders to machines.
Measure water quality: temperature, oxygen, salinity, pH, N2, NO2,NH4, CO2, turbidity, chlorophyll. Monitor microbiological water quality.
Water plant technician - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Adapt operations in the distribution and supply of water for irrigation purposes, residential or facility use, to ensure that the timing is correct and the schedule is followed.
Carry out tests in a laboratory to produce reliable and precise data to support scientific research and product testing.
Operate equipment for water disinfection, using different methods and techniques, such as mechanical filtration, depending on needs.
Principles of complex water chemistry.
Keep written records of all repairs and maintenance interventions undertaken, including information on the parts and materials used, etc.
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.
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.
Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory analysis.
Make use of protection equipment according to training, instruction and manuals. Inspect the equipment and use it consistently.
Perform waste water treatment according to regulations checking for biological waste and chemical waste.
Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.
Install systems and components that use liquid fluid power to create mechanical movements such as hydraulic pumps, valves, hydraulic motors, hydraulic cylinders and other elements that power hydraulic machinery.
Document on paper or on electronic devices the process and the results of the samples analysis performed.
Measure concentrations of pollutants within samples. Calculate air pollution or gas flow in industrial processes. Identify potential safety or health risks such as radiation.
Install systems of pipes, drains, fittings, valves, and fixtures designed for the distribution of potable water for drinking, heating, washing and waste removal.
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.
Ensure that correct procedures are followed and the required equipment is present and functional for the storage of water prior to treatment or distribution.
Principles of water re-use processes in complex circulation systems.
Ensure that the equipment required for operations is regularly checked for faults, that routine maintenance tasks are performed, and that repairs are scheduled and performed in the case of damage or flaws.
Maintain a system to obtain potable water from saline water.
Conduct testing procedures on water quality, such as pH tests and dissolved solids. Understand instrumentation drawings.
Manage a system for the removal of salt in order to obtain potable water.