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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for work
   • Receive and give shift handover
   • Identify work requirements
   • Identify and control hazards
   • Coordinate with appropriate personnel
   • Check for recent work undertaken on plant item
   • Note any outstanding/incomplete work
   • Check operational status of plant item
2. Monitor utility and support fluid equipment
   • Determine the required levels of demand for support or utility fluids from a knowledge of the plant/site's process control systems or equipment
   • Monitor process equipment and systems, such as compressors, pumps, receivers and distribution systems, to meet and maintain the facility utility service requirements
   • Monitor and manually adjust flow or ensure correct operation of automatic control valves to control the flow of fluids into the plant/site's process systems and equipment
   • Monitor quality of fluids and ensure that they remain within specifications, e.g. quality and consistency
   • Complete routine checks, logs and paperwork taking action on unexpected readings
3. Identify need for maintenance
   • Monitor service records to assist with programmed maintenance scheduling
   • Monitor equipment for evidence of maintenance needs outside programmed maintenance
   • Advise other site personnel of the need to take equipment off-line for maintenance action
   • Identify back-up or auxiliary equipment (where provided) to facilitate maintenance of fluid supplies within the facility
   • Ensure equipment can be safely taken off-line for maintenance
4. Isolate and de-isolate equipment
   • Complete any required pre-start checks, ensuring valves, inlets and outlets are in correct positions
   • Start up/shut down/changeover equipment according to type and duty in liaison with other personnel
   • Isolate plant
   • Make safe for required work
   • Check plant is ready to be returned to service
   • De-isolate and prepare plant for return to service
5. Respond to emergencies
   • Identify critical out-of-specification performance of equipment and contact appropriate personnel
   • Respond to an emergency situation according to procedures
   • Shut down, under instruction, any equipment and associated equipment affected by the emergency situation
   • Implement any back-up procedures to ensure the ongoing supply of critical fluids to the remainder of the facility
   • Ensure all safety procedures are fully complied with

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Regulatory framework	The latest version of all legislation, regulations, industry codes of practice and Australian/international standards, or the version specified by the local regulatory authority, must be used, and include one or more of the following: legislative requirements, including work health and safety (WHS) industry codes of practice and guidelines environmental regulations and guidelines Australian and other standards licence and certification requirements All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent health, safety and environment (HSE) requirements, which may be imposed through state/territory or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between performance criteria and HSE requirements, the HSE requirements take precedence.
Procedures	All operations must be performed in accordance with relevant procedures. Procedures are written, verbal, visual, computer-based or in some other form, and include one or more of the following: emergency procedures work instructions standard operating procedures (SOPs) safe work method statements (SWMS) formulas/recipes batch sheets temporary instructions any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant
Hazards	Hazards include one or more of the following: electricity gas gases and liquids under pressure structural hazards structural collapse equipment failures industrial (machinery, equipment and product) equipment or product mass noise, rotational equipment or vibration plant services (steam, condensate and cooling water) working at heights, in restricted or confined spaces, or in environments subjected to heat, noise, dusts or vapours flammability, and explosivity hazardous products and materials unauthorised personnel sharp edges, protrusions or obstructions slippery surfaces, spills or leaks extreme weather other hazards that might arise
Routine problems	Routine problems must be resolved by applying known solutions. Routine problems are predictable and include one or more of the following: variation in fluid feed vibration or surging control of level, temperature, pressure and flow blockages or leakage Known solutions are drawn from one or more of the following: procedures training remembered experience Non-routine problems must be reported according to according to relevant procedures.
Action	Action in accordance with procedures includes the following: determining problems needing action determining possible fault causes rectifying problem using appropriate solution within area of responsibility following through items initiated until final resolution has occurred reporting problems outside area of responsibility to designated person
Operate	Operate is to monitor, adjust/change the plant item/unit/system to meet specifications, by one or more of the following: manually in the plant using local controller in the plant using the process control system in the control room
Start up/shut down as required	Start up/shut down as required includes the following: start up and shut down to/from normal operating conditions start up and shut down to/from isolated, cold or empty start up and shut down to/from other conditions/situations experienced on the plant
Utilities/fluid supply system	This unit of competency includes all such items of equipment and unit operations which form part of the utilities/fluids supply system. Depending on the plant this will include one or more of the following: plant/site/camp water equipment high and low pressure steam equipment flushing oil systems cryogenic plants refrigerant systems filtration equipment purge systems

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include the ability to:

start up and shut down fluid supply system

monitor and operate equipment to meet specifications and demand

identify need for maintenance and prepare equipment for maintenance

identify critical issues and apply emergency procedures

recognise early warning signs of equipment/processes needing attention or with potential problems

determine the most likely cause of routine problems

take action to ensure a timely return to full performance

isolate and de-isolate equipment

identify hazards and apply hazard control procedures

distinguish between causes of problems/alarm/fault indications, including:

instrument failure/malfunction

electrical failure/malfunction

mechanical failure/malfunction

product parameters (temperature, flows, pressure and levels).

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

all items on a schematic of the system and the function of each

principles of equipment operation

physics and chemistry relevant to the utility and its use

emergency back-up systems

process control systems and instrumentation

the differences between high pressure and low pressure systems

process parameters and limits, e.g. temperature, pressure, flow and pH

routine problems, faults and their resolution

relevant alarms and actions

correct methods of starting, stopping, operating and controlling process

hierarchy of control

hazards that may arise in the job/work environment, and:

their possible causes

potential consequences

appropriate risk controls.

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