Certificate IV in Process Plant Technology - PMA40116
Box Hill Institute, TAFE VIC
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 02411J
The PMA40116 Certificate IV in Process Plant Technology is a technical qualification for plant technicians and operations technicians who will typically be involved in solving complex problems which require theoretical knowledge, combined with an understanding of the production process and equipment across the plant. This qualification is typically used to develop employees performing a technical role that includes an ability to work independently and conduct technical problem solving according to the needs of the work in the chemical, hydrocarbons and refining industries.Other non-technical Certificate IV qualifications are available for production support employees at this level, such as MSM40116 Certificate IV in Process Manufacturing.
Structure
- 26 units: 5 core
- 21 elective
Subjects
- Monitor and operate low pressure compressors
- Monitor and control work permits
- Provide coaching/mentoring in the workplace
- Operate grinding equipment
- Use structured problem-solving tools
- Disconnect and reconnect non-flared tube fitting joints
- Operate fluid flow equipment
- Operate panel during an emergency
- Operate and monitor prime movers
- Perform basic tests
- Operate wells and gathering systems
- Operate chemical separation equipment
- Assist in implementing a proactive maintenance strategy
- Identify and minimise environmental hazards
- Control the risks of falls
- Control gas odourisation
- Control minor incidents
- Provide advanced first aid response
- Operate Joule-Thomson effect device
- Operate remote production facilities
- Conduct hazard analysis
- Conduct and assess incident exercises
- Follow emergency response procedures
- Plan plant preparation and isolation
- Develop plant documentation
- Monitor the implementation of Good Manufacturing Practice procedures
- Shut down and isolate machines/equipment
- Trial new process or product
- Interpret product costs in terms of customer requirements
- Follow WHS procedures
- Coordinate pipeline projects
- Operate an electrochemical process
- Command the operation of survival craft
- Monitor and maintain electrical systems
- Sustain process improvements
- Manage communication systems during an incident
- Monitor and maintain pipeline coatings
- Operate a gas turbine
- Solve colour problems
- Commission/recommission plant
- Operate a production unit
- Contribute to WHS management system
- Organise storage and logistics of general materials
- Undertake first response to fire incidents
- Sample and test materials and product
- Operate solids handling equipment
- Assess competence
- Apply workplace context to own job
- Operate solids handling/storage facility
- Monitor and operate flare systems
- Plan assessment activities and processes
- Gas test atmospheres
- Operate manufacturing extrusion systems
- Undertake initial rescue
- Identify and apply process improvements
- Facilitate breakthrough improvements
- Identify faults in electronic control
- Operate leaching equipment
- Operate filtration equipment
- Monitor, operate and maintain pipeline stations and equipment
- Conduct artificial lift
- Transfer loads
- Bake carbon anodes
- Operate a metalliferous kiln/furnace
- Store fluids in bulk
- Use organisation computers or data systems
- Operate a forklift
- Investigate incidents
- Manage plant shutdown and restart
- Process and record information
- Communicate in the workplace
- Undertake helicopter safety and escape
- Monitor continuous process plant
- Prepare and isolate plant
- Assess and secure an incident site
- Deliver molten metal
- Operate digestion equipment
- Operate reduction cells
- Operate fixed bed adsorption unit
- Select and prepare materials
- Undertake minor maintenance
- Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
- Monitor process capability
- Use planning software systems in operations
- Perform tasks to support production
- Operate melting furnaces
- Transfer bulk fluids into/out of storage facility
- Pack products or materials
- Ensure process improvements are sustained
- Develop incident containment tactics
- Apply Good Manufacturing Practice procedures
- Adjust batch
- Coordinate permit process
- Collect routine site samples
- Operate powered separation equipment
- Conduct screening operations
- Operate separation equipment
- Operate communications hub
- Design and develop assessment tools
- Cast ingots
- Form carbon anodes
- Identify equipment faults
- Coordinate incident response
- Monitor and maintain cathodic protection systems
- Maintain first aid resources and records
- Operate pelletising equipment
- Control evacuation to muster point
- Facilitate and improve implementation of 5S
- Decommission plant
- Operate a blast furnace
- Operate gas absorption unit
- Clean and strip anode rods
- Match and adjust colour
- Start up reduction cells
- Licence to operate an advanced boiler
- Facilitate a team
- Monitor vibration
- Select and use utilities and services
- Monitor, operate and control reverse osmosis and nano-filtration processes
- Operate a distillation unit
- Maintain and organise workplace records
- Improve cost factors in work practices
- Provide work skill instruction
- Use equipment
- Supply product from reduction cells
- Conduct pipeline pigging
- Undertake fire control and emergency rescue
- Monitor and control repairs and modifications on operational pipe
- Read dials and indicators
- Observe permit work
- Move materials
- Undertake ship loading/unloading operations
- Undertake corrosion inspection on process plant
- Work in a team
- Interpret process plant schematics
- Respond to abnormal process situations
- Licence to operate a standard boiler
- Facilitate the use of planning software systems in a work area or team
- Operate solvent extraction equipment
- Develop and adjust a production schedule
- Monitor pipeline civil works
- Operate breathing apparatus
- Work safely
- Coordinate maintenance
- Operate and monitor heating furnace
- Undertake root cause analysis
- Manage incident response information
- Operate offshore cranes
- Monitor and maintain instrument and control systems
- Manage wells and gathering systems
- Minimise environmental impact of process
- Spray carbon anodes
- Enter confined space
- Participate in HAZOP studies
- Facilitate implementation of competitive systems and practices
- Operate and monitor gas production plant
- Provide fluids for utilities and support
- Operate complex control systems
- Lead emergency teams
- Respond to a helideck incident
- Operate reactors and reaction equipment
- Communicate and monitor pipeline activities
- Handle goods
- Provide first aid response in remote and/or isolated area
- Undertake manual handling
- Develop first aid procedures and manage resources
- Moor ships for transfer of bulk processed particulates or fluids
- Apply offshore facility abandonment and sea survival procedures and practices
- Operate wet milling equipment
- Mistake proof an operational process
- Apply 5S procedures
- Issue work permits
- Achieve work outcomes
- Operate furnaces to induce reaction
- Monitor and operate tailings management facilities
- Undertake proactive maintenance analyses
- Undertake crane, dogging and load transfer operations
- Operate and monitor pumping systems and equipment
- Operate vehicles in the field
- Undertake well management
- Operate magnetic/electrical separation equipment
- Follow work procedures to maintain Good Manufacturing Practice
- Monitor chemical reactions in the process
- Monitor wells and gathering systems
- Contribute to the development of workplace documentation
- Operate equipment to blend/mix materials
- Work in accordance with an issued permit
- Optimise process/plant area
- Operate equipment
- Operate cell tending equipment
- Facilitate search and rescue operations
- Provide first aid
- Control corrosion
- Clean workplace or equipment
- Package product/material
- Apply cost factors to work practices
- Operate a biochemical process
- Operate fluid mixing equipment
- Interpret technical drawing
- Operate process control systems
- Operate crushing equipment
- Identify problems in fluid power system
- Manage conflict at work
- Lead team culture improvement
- Develop and monitor quality systems
- Operate heat exchangers
- Facilitate the implementation of WHS for a work group
- Operate vertical direct casting process
- Work effectively with diversity
- Participate in continuous improvement
- Design an experiment
- Operate cryogenic processes
- Operate bulk solids loading equipment
- Monitor legal compliance obligations during incidents
- Operate a biotreater
- Participate in assessment validation
- Contribute to the application of a proactive maintenance strategy
- Maintain pipeline easements
- Undertake process capability improvements
- Operate and monitor valve systems
- Operate a smelting furnace
- Prepare basic engineering drawing
- Operate as a team member to conduct manufacturing, engineering or related activities
- Licence to operate a steam turbine
- Operate sintering equipment
- Operate liquid extraction unit
- Generate electrical power
- Prepare equipment for emergency response
- Develop and maintain community relationships
- Obtain representative samples in accordance with sampling plan
- Undertake first response to non-fire incidents
- Operate local control system
- Apply quality standards
- Contribute to assessment
- Perform routine manual metal arc welding
- Commission wells and gathering systems
- Operate and monitor compressor systems and equipment
- Audit incident preparedness and established response systems
- Assess risk
- Break and make flanged joints using hand tools
- Apply HACCP to the workplace
Standard entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for this qualification.
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Entry | Mid year intake | Attendance |
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