United Kingdom · Water Treatment Management
Water treatment technician
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Also advertised as Waste Water Treatment Technician
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1From this job to a course
The qualifications matched to this job
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The units you would start with
Built for Water treatment technician
2 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.
- Water Treatment Operations Level 3
- Water treatment processes Level 4
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2What this role really is
Responsible for the development, installation and maintenance of water treatment programmes for water systems.
- Work safely and comply with health and safety procedures
- Produce a water treatment programme meeting system and regulatory requirements
- Develop control measures to maintain treatment efficacy
- Identify and assess relevant system conditions
- Monitor treatment programme performance
- Investigate system faults and errors
- Implement corrective actions as needed
- Document and report findings appropriately
- Provide necessary documentation to relevant personnel
- Produce a water treatment programme that meets system and regulatory requirements
- Create a control measures programme to ensure treatment efficacy
- Evaluate the performance of the treatment programme for potable water systems
- Investigate faults and errors in the system
- Develop and implement corrective actions
- Document and report findings according to company procedures
- Share documentation with relevant personnel
- Work safely, adhering to health and safety procedures.
- Develop a water treatment programme tailored to system and regulatory requirements.
3What you’ll use
What you’ll use
Skills this role draws on
Technical
- Design, specify and recommend chemical water treatment programmes taking account of water supply quality and system operating conditions
- Evaluate the suitability of alternative physical and chemical water treatment programmes for specific water systems and applications
- Give presentations and demonstrations to customer/site personnel regarding treatment recommendations and control requirements
- Assess the performance of a water system treatment programmes and provide recommendations for improvement
- Organise, construct, manage and report review meetings with customers/site personnel
- Knowledge: Understand the water treatment requirements of specific water applications and processes e.g. water used for pharmaceutical manufacturing, chemical treatment
- dosing: Understand the equipment options available and their relevant benefits
- dosing: Acquire the knowledge required to install, service and maintain specific items of equipment relevant to their job role
- Skills: Complete water system surveys and produce system diagrams appropriate to the presentation of system data e.g. layout of the treatment plant within the system location
- Skills: Evaluate and design appropriate water treatment equipment installations
- Skills: Install, commission and service water treatment equipment
- Skills: Assess the performance of a water system treatment programme
- Skills: Supervise a team and manage the health, safety and environment of a water treatment equipment installation and/or operation
- Knowledge: Know and understand any regulatory requirements and guidance appropriate to the water systems being assessed
- Knowledge: Understand the principles of risk assessment and the identification of hazards in water systems
- Knowledge: Understand the application of water treatment programmes for specific water systems
- Knowledge: Understand the principles of design for water systems and water treatment equipment e.g. water tanks, calorifiers, softeners etc.
- Knowledge: Acquire the knowledge required to recommend remedial actions, optional system improvements and management requirements
- Skills: Carry out site/system investigations and surveys
- Skills: Prepare water system diagrams and drawings
- Skills: Assess the comparative risk of Legionellosis presented by specific water systems
- Skills: Identify remedial, improvement and management actions required to minimise any risk presented
- Skills: Prepare and present the assessment report findings to customer/site personnel
- Skills: Review the implementation of remedial actions recommended in the risk assessment e.g. pipework changes, insulation and review the employment of management controls e.g. temperature monitoring programmes, system analysis results
- Knowledge: Understand the water treatment requirements of specific water systems e.g. drinking water systems, process water systems etc.
- Knowledge: Understand chemical cleaning and disinfection programme options for specific water systems and processes
- Knowledge: Acquire the knowledge required to assess the performance of water treatment cleaning/disinfection operation
- Knowledge: Understand the risks involved, the relevant Health and Safety regulations associated with the project and specific requirements of the project site
- Skills: Complete water system surveys and produce system diagrams appropriate for the direction and management of a cleaning/disinfection project
- Skills: Understand and apply chemical cleaning and disinfection programmes for specific water systems
- Skills: Install, commission and service temporary operations equipment required to complete the project e.g. flushing pump stations, side stream filtration, cooling tower packing
- Skills: Assess the performance and progress of a water treatment cleaning/disinfection operation by sample analysis and make adjustments to the programme as required
- Skills: Supervise a team of Water Treatment Operatives and any associated subcontractors.
- Skills: Produce a method statement and control scheme to manage the health, safety and environment during the various phases of a project.
Functional
- Understand the water treatment requirements of specific water systems e.g. steam boilers, cooling towers etc.
- Understand the treatment options available for specific water systems e.g. pretreatment plant, chemical treatment etc
- Acquire the knowledge required to assess the performance of water treatment programmes and required to recommend improvements
4The pathway
The pathway
Getting in, in the UK
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Water treatment technician (Level 3) — Skills England standard ST0453
5Pay and demand
Pay & demand
The figure is the median for full-time employees in the ONS occupation this job title codes to (Water and sewerage plant operatives), from the April 2025 survey, about six months old when published, as ASHE always is. It is that occupation's middle, not this role's. Half earn more.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Water Treatment Operations, worked against Water treatment technician.
Applied to your work in Water treatment technician
The objective of this unit is to enable learners to understand and undertake various water treatment processes, including the delivery, storage, and monitoring of chemicals. Learners will gain knowledge of different treatment processes, chemical delivery methods, and safe storage requirements, allowing them to effectively manage and monitor water treatment operations.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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- Design, specify and recommend chemical water treatment programmes taking account of water supply quality and system operating conditions
- Evaluate the suitability of alternative physical and chemical water treatment programmes for specific water systems and applications
- Give presentations and demonstrations to customer/site personnel regarding treatment recommendations and control requirements
- Assess the performance of a water system treatment programmes and provide recommendations for improvement
- Organise, construct, manage and report review meetings with customers/site personnel
- Knowledge: Understand the water treatment requirements of specific water applications and processes e.g. water used for pharmaceutical manufacturing, chemical treatment
- dosing: Understand the equipment options available and their relevant benefits
- dosing: Acquire the knowledge required to install, service and maintain specific items of equipment relevant to their job role
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