Carry out repair and maintenance of treatment processing plant and equipment

This standard is about carrying out repair and maintenance work on treatment processing plant and equipment to ensure treatment processes operate efficiently.

It includes shutting down and isolating equipment, carrying out maintenance, monitoring safety, reporting defects and malfunctions and disposing of waste.

This standard is suitable for operators carrying out first line maintenance as well as third party contractors carrying out maintenance on water, waste water, or sludge treatment processing plant and equipment.

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1. ensure all materials, tools and parts recommended by manufacturers and in accordance with organisational requirements are available before repair and maintenance work commences
2. shut down or isolate, or request designated people to shut down or isolate, plant or equipment being worked on
3. inform affected people when plant and equipment is to be shut down and when to expect plant and equipment to be re-started and re-commissioned
4. issue and display safety warnings in advance of repair and maintenance to plant and equipment
5. carry out repair and maintenance in accordance with the timescales specified in the maintenance schedule
6. carry out repair and maintenance in the specified sequence for the plant and equipment being worked on using procedures specific to the site
7. follow manufacturers' and organisational specifications and safety procedures for using instruments and monitoring equipment to carry out repair and maintenance
8. check that safety monitoring procedures and equipment are in place and functioning throughout repair and maintenance work
9. make sure that work is carried out using monitoring equipment, tools and procedures specific to the site
10. restore plant and equipment to specified operational performance when maintenance is finished, in accordance with organisational requirements and safety procedures
11. dispose of waste materials and unwanted parts in accordance with safe working practices and organisational procedures
12. report malfunctions of monitoring instrumentation, tools or the plant environment to designated people without delay
13. report problems with repair and maintenance activities which are outside the responsibility for your job role and which require designated skilled people or maintenance work
14. provide maintenance reports to designated people where decisions outside your authority are required
15. use performance checks, observation, noise, heat, vibration and remote monitoring to check for malfunctions or other maintenance which might be required
16. complete and store maintenance records in accordance with organisational procedures
17. follow security procedures in accordance with organisational protocols and policies
18. provide access to maintenance records to designated people on request

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1. water industry legislation, standards, codes of practice, and industry regulations for health, safety, and hygiene in relation to your job role
2. water industry legislation, standards, codes of practice, and industry regulations for quality and environmental protection and measures to reduce harmful emissions and substances in relation to your job role
3. the organisation’s process for safe working practices when dealing with equipment, instrumentation and environment, including lone working
4. the role and purpose of data audit trails in quality assurance, health and safety and regulatory requirements
5. the organisation’s operation and maintenance methods and procedures and consequences of carrying out maintenance incorrectly and outside limits of responsibility and authority
6. who to contact when maintenance and problems affecting treatment operations occur
7. procedures and the factors to be considered for isolation, diverting flows, bypassing treatment process units, operating temporary plant and shut down of plant and equipment, and who has authority to carry this out
8. typical and unusual problems which may occur during maintenance and the limits of your authority for resolving them
9. who to report any problems that you cannot resolve and the organisational procedures for doing so
10. who needs information about progress with maintenance activities and the organisational procedures for passing it to them
11. how to source materials and parts
12. the characteristics of faulty monitoring equipment and instrumentation and the outcome of equipment and instrumentation breakdown
13. protocols and policies for confidentiality, cyber security and site security and why they are important
14. principles for maintenance of treatment process plant and equipment
15. the organisation’s procedures for recording and storing information
16. how and when to produce data in text, tabular and graphical formats and how to interpret it
17. the treatment process that the equipment being worked on relates to, and how the work may impact the performance or efficiency of that process

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31 Mar 2027

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Current

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Original

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Energy & Utility Skills

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EUSTPC03

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Engineering, Science and Engineering Technicians, Water Processing Operative

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8134

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organise, maintenance, process equipment, plant environment, safety, malfunctions, plant operating priorities, repair, assess, report, water, waste water, sludge

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