Course Level
Certificate III
Certificate III in Water Industry Operations - NWP30222
This is a qualification for those engaged in generalist water industry operations or specialisations in catchment and dams, civil construction, irrigation water supply, networks, and treatment: water and wastewater, wastewater treatment or water treatment.The general qualification covers skills and knowledge to obtain a broad range of skills in the water industry. It allows staff to apply operational and procedural practices under the appropriate level of supervision.Group A: Specialist Elective - Catchment and DamsThis specialisation covers the skills and knowledge required to monitor, operate and maintain water catchment and dam operations.Group B: Specialist Elective - CivilConstructionThis specialisation covers the skills and knowledge required to monitor, operate and maintain civil construction operations.Group C: Specialist Elective - Irrigation Water SupplyThis specialisation covers the skills and knowledge required to monitor, operate and maintain irrigation water supply operations.Group D: Specialist Elective - NetworksThis specialisation covers the skills and knowledge required to monitor, operate and maintain network operations.Group E: Specialist Elective - Treatment: Water and WastewaterThis specialisation covers the skills and knowledge required to monitor, operate and maintain treatment operations for both water and wastewater.Group F: Specialist Elective - WastewaterTreatmentThis specialisation covers the skills and knowledge required to monitor, operate and maintain wastewater treatment operations.Group G: Specialist Elective - Water TreatmentThis specialisation covers the skills and knowledge required to monitor, operate and maintain drinking water treatment operations.Please note: RTO to insert on the testamur, the specialist elective unit group selected from the group choice above.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Campus | Duration | Fees | ATAR |
|---|---|---|---|
Torrumbarry - 334 National Channel Road | N/A | N/A |
Subjects
- Prepare and restore worksite
- Operate and control fixed film processes
- Operate and control granular media filters
- Operate and control chloramination processes
- Record and present data
- Coordinate business operational plans
- Apply the risk management principles of the water industry standards, guidelines and legislation
- Work effectively with others
- Inspect sewer or stormwater assets
- Construct and dismantle fences and gates
- Install trench support
- Inspect and report on concrete dam safety
- Monitor and operate hypochlorite disinfection processes
- Operate and maintain fishways
- Identify the role and functions of the water industry
- Sample and test wastewater
- Contribute effectively to WHS communication and consultation processes
- Inspect and operate groundwater regulation
- Monitor and operate wastewater collection and transfer systems
- Monitor and operate wastewater treatment processes
- Apply knowledge of WHS laws in the workplace
- Operate and control nutrient removal processes
- Operate and control odour removal processes
- Perform standard calibrations
- Implement civil construction plans
- Monitor and control dam operations
- Carry out manual excavation
- Implement traffic management plans
- Monitor and operate water treatment processes
- Lay pavers
- Operate and control ion exchange and softening processes
- Operate and control coagulation and flocculation processes
- Operate and control membrane filters
- Assist with maintaining workplace safety
- Install polyethylene plastic pipelines for pressurised applications
- Test and commission water distribution systems
- Assess household water use and efficiency improvements
- Conduct basic scaffolding operations
- Perform laboratory testing
- Use digital imaging equipment in the field
- Use concreting materials and equipment
- Monitor, operate and control lagoon processes
- Carry out measurements and calculations
- Operate and control incineration processes
- Inspect and operate water diversion systems
- Licence to perform dogging
- Install signs
- Install pre-cast access chambers
- Identify and confirm blue-green algae outbreaks
- Supervise asbestos removal
- Perform leak detection
- Detect and rectify faults with automated channel regulators
- Conduct patching operations
- Join polyethylene plastic pipelines using electrofusion welding
- Route floods through storages
- Handle concrete materials
- Perform odour and infiltration investigations
- Monitor and operate pump stations
- Deliver and monitor a service to customers
- Inspect and report river performance
- Maintain and repair network assets for drinking water
- Use SCADA systems in operations
- Operate and maintain locks and weirs
- Monitor and operate fluoride addition processes
- Install PVC plastic pipelines for pressurised applications
- Conduct a water audit and identify water-saving initiatives
- Carry out basic levelling
- Monitor and control vacuum sewer systems
- Operate and control activated sludge processes
- Monitor and control rural water distribution operations
- Use hand and power tools
- Maintain and repair network assets for wastewater
- Facilitate the use of SCADA systems in a team or work area
- Control electrical risk on network pipes
- Use maps, plans, drawings and details
- Install stormwater systems
- Investigate and report on breaches of water industry legislation
- Monitor and operate rural irrigation and domestic delivery systems
- Process customer complaints
- Monitor and operate ultraviolet processes
- Monitor and coordinate catchment operations
- Conduct pipe layer operations
- Operate and control digestion processes
- Monitor and operate bulkwater transfer systems
- Operate and maintain salt interception works
- Maintain drainage systems
- Install pre-cast gully pits
- Calculate costs of construction work
- Licence to operate a slewing mobile crane (up to 60 tonnes)
- Monitor and conduct maintenance on rural irrigation assets
- Operate small plant and equipment
- Monitor and operate ozone processes
- Operate breathing apparatus
- Monitor and implement dam maintenance
- Monitor and operate network systems
- Inspect and report on embankment dam safety
- Respond to blue-green algae outbreaks
- Store and handle dangerous goods and hazardous substances
- Participate in WHS hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control processes
- Operate and control dissolved air flotation processes
- Disinfect network assets
- Handle construction materials
- Respond to site based spills
- Provide and promote customer service
- Operate and control iron and manganese removal processes
- Operate and maintain flood warning sites
- Remove friable asbestos
- Enter and work in confined spaces
- Work safely at heights
- Spread and compact materials manually
- Operate and control activated carbon processes
- Join polyethylene plastic pipelines using butt welding
- Assess, implement and report environmental procedures
- Operate and control sedimentation and clarification processes
- Monitor and operate liquefied chlorine gas disinfection processes
- Load and unload plant
- Apply WHS requirements, policies and procedures in the construction industry
- Clean networks using air scouring, chemical or swabbing techniques
- Maintain meters for rural water supplies
- Implement erosion and sediment control measures
- Operate and control solids handling processes
- Sample and test source or drinking water
- Operate and control reclaimed water irrigation
- Monitor and operate water distribution systems
- Apply an expanding range of arithmetical calculations for work
- Follow basic chemical safety rules
- Apply principles of chemistry to water systems and processes
- Monitor and operate groundwater extraction
- Organise personal work priorities
- Monitor and schedule water deliveries
- Identify and respond to water quality problems
- Conduct and report dam safety instrumentation monitoring
- Monitor and control drainage operations
- Drain and dewater civil construction sites
- Carry out concrete work
- Install, maintain and repair hydrants
- Maintain network assets using high pressure water systems
- Remove non-friable asbestos
- Organise workplace information
- Trim and cut felled trees
- Operate and control desalination processes
- Control vegetation on a site
- Install meters for rural water supplies
- Test and commission wastewater collection systems
- Prepare to work safely in the construction industry