Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare for the work
- Work requirements are identified from request/work orders or equivalent and clarified/confirmed with appropriate parties or by site inspection
- Occupational Health and Safety standards, statutory requirements, relevant Australian standards, codes of practice, manufacturers' specifications, environmental requirements and enterprise procedures are identified, applied and monitored throughout the work procedure
- Resources required to satisfy the work plan are identified, obtained and inspected for compliance with the job specifications
- Relevant plans, drawings and texts are selected and interpreted in accordance with the work plan
- Work is planned in detail including sequencing, prioritising and considerations made where appropriate for the maintenance of plant security and capacity in accordance with system/site requirements
- Coordination requirements, including requests for isolations where appropriate, are resolved with others involved, affected or required by the work
- Potential hazards are identified and prevention and/or control measures are selected in accordance with the work plan and site procedures
- Work area is prepared in accordance with work requirements and site procedures
- Where appropriate, the teams and individuals roles and responsibilities within the team are identified and, where required, assist in the provision of the on-the-job training
- Write and load programs
- Test and measurement instruments, software packages are selected and used to enable completion of the program writing in accordance with the work plan
- Appropriate plans, drawings and text are selected to enable program writing for the control system in accordance with the work plan
- Programming data is written with sequence and variables determined as being in accordance with the desired operating parameters of the control system
- Test and measurement instruments, software packages are selected and used to enable the program to be loaded in accordance with the work plan
- Test operating parameters
- Test and measurement instruments, software packages to allow the testing of operating parameters are selected and used in accordance with the work plan
- Appropriate plans, drawings and text and the written program are used to confirm programming data in accordance with the work plan
- Sequence and variables are tested to confirm the desired operating parameters of the control system are met
- Complete the work
- Documentation of the programming is performed and presented to appropriate personnel in accordance with the work plan
- Work procedures are modified and evaluated where necessary in accordance with new program documentation
- Work is completed and appropriate personnel notified in accordance with site/enterprise requirements