Advanced Diploma of Process Plant Technology - PMA60116

TAFE Western Australia Colleges

Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
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The PMA60115 Advanced Diploma of Process Plant Technology is a technical qualification for technologists or para-professionals who undertake technical projects such as plant modifications either individually or as part of a project team where they have a significant technical role. They may have worked their way up through the process plant operation/technology certificate and diploma qualifications or may have entered the industry at this level, either from another industry or trade occupation.Other non-technical Advanced Diplomas are available at this level such as MSS60312 - Advanced Diploma of Competitive Systems and Practices.

Structure

  • 15 units: 4 core
  • 11 elective

Subjects

  • Coordinate welfare support activities in response to an incident
  • Manage corporate media requirements in a crisis
  • Use structured problem-solving tools
  • Assist in implementing a proactive maintenance strategy
  • Build partnerships to improve incident response capacity
  • Operate remote production facilities
  • Conduct and assess incident exercises
  • Plan plant preparation and isolation
  • Develop plant documentation
  • Trial new process or product
  • Coordinate pipeline projects
  • Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
  • Solve colour problems
  • Provide operational expertise to a project team
  • Commission/recommission plant
  • Contribute to WHS management system
  • Undertake value analysis of product or process costs in terms of customer requirements
  • Assess competence
  • Plan assessment activities and processes
  • Debottleneck plant
  • Apply statistics to operational processes
  • Optimise production systems
  • Develop a decorative coating
  • Control the process during abnormal situations
  • Analyse equipment performance
  • Develop a colour formulation
  • Facilitate breakthrough improvements
  • Identify faults in electronic control
  • Manage a crisis
  • Manage plant shutdown and restart
  • Process and record information
  • Determine mass transfer loads
  • Manage people relationships
  • Determine and establish information collection requirements and processes
  • Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
  • Develop a proactive maintenance strategy
  • Ensure process improvements are sustained
  • Develop the application of enterprise control systems in an organisation
  • Develop incident containment tactics
  • Coordinate permit process
  • Provide surface coatings application advice
  • Manage utilities
  • Coordinate incident response
  • Plan plant shutdown
  • Develop strategies for more sustainable use of resources
  • Facilitate and improve implementation of 5S
  • Decommission plant
  • Determine energy transfer loads
  • Review procedures to minimise environmental impact of process
  • Contribute to safety case
  • Match and adjust colour
  • Improve cost factors in work practices
  • Apply physiochemical knowledge to select raw materials for surface coatings
  • Determine and improve process capability
  • Manage environmental management system
  • Develop a non-decorative coating or ink
  • Interpret process plant schematics
  • Manage workplace learning
  • Respond to abnormal process situations
  • Facilitate the use of planning software systems in a work area or team
  • Design equipment and system modifications
  • Work safely
  • Manage emergency incidents
  • Maintain WHS management system
  • Coordinate maintenance
  • Develop and manage sustainable energy practices
  • Manage 5S system in an organisation
  • Manage wells and gathering systems
  • Minimise environmental impact of process
  • Participate in HAZOP studies
  • Coordinate plant shutdown
  • Facilitate implementation of competitive systems and practices
  • Operate complex control systems
  • Plan and design tailings management facilities
  • Develop first aid procedures and manage resources
  • Implement improvement systems in an organisation
  • Mistake proof an operational process
  • Issue work permits
  • Achieve work outcomes
  • Monitor and operate tailings management facilities
  • Undertake proactive maintenance analyses
  • Maintain quality system and continuous improvement processes within work or functional area
  • Optimise cost of a product or service
  • Manage diversity
  • Optimise process/plant area
  • Establish incident response preparedness and response systems
  • Manage change
  • Identify problems in fluid power system
  • Lead team culture improvement
  • Develop and monitor quality systems
  • Monitor legal compliance obligations during incidents
  • Participate in assessment validation
  • Undertake process capability improvements
  • Modify plant
  • Develop WHS management system
  • Develop and maintain community relationships
  • Manage relationships with non-customer external organisations
  • Obtain representative samples in accordance with sampling plan
  • Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainability
  • Manage risk
  • Commission wells and gathering systems
  • Audit incident preparedness and established response systems
  • Assess risk

Study information

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