Responsibilities:
- They monitor and control liquid or gas landfill extraction systems.
- They oversee gas collection landfill operations, including leachate and gas management or rail operations. They operate computerized control panels to manage gas compression operations.
- They develop or enforce procedures for normal operation, start-up, or shut-down of methane gas collection systems.
- They maintain records for landfill gas collection systems to demonstrate compliance with safety and environmental laws, regulations, or policies.
- They monitor gas collection systems emissions data, including bio methane or nitrous oxide levels.
- They optimize gas collection landfill operational costs and productivity to be consistent with safety and environmental rules and regulations.
- They implement landfill operational and emergency procedures.
- They inspect landfill or conduct site audits to ensure adherence to safety and environmental regulations.
- They monitor landfill permit requirements for updates.
- They oversee landfill gas collection system construction, maintenance, and repair activities.
- They prepare and manage landfill gas collection system budgets.
- They supervise landfill, well field, and other subordinate employees. They also coordinate the repair, overhaul, or routine maintenance of diesel engines used in landfill operations.
- They need to be able to read meters, gauges, or automatic recording devices at specified intervals to verify gas collection systems operating conditions. They diagnose or troubleshoot gas collection equipment and programmable logic controller (PLC) systems.
- They prepare reports on landfill operations and gas collection system productivity or efficiency. They recommend or implement practices to reduce turnaround time for trucks in and out of landfill site.
- They track volume and weight of landfill waste. ( Methane/Landfill Gas Collection System Operators, n.d.). (Speer, 2014).
Skills:
- Employers prefer candidates with strong computer and technical skills.
- Strong organizational skills are vital.
- Great reasoning skills are necessary.
- Must have the ability to follow safety precautions.
- Strong interpersonal skills. Gas Collection System Operators must have excellent communication skills so they can work with managers from other departments, as well as with the company's senior-level management.
- Strong leadership skills are required to keep the production process running smoothly. Gas Collection System Operators must motivate and direct the employees they manage.
- Strong problem-solving skills since they must be able to identify problems immediately and solve them.
- Strong time-management skills are required to meet production deadlines, since system operators must carefully manage their employees' time as well as their own. (Methane/Landfill Gas Collection System Operators, 2013).
- They monitor and control liquid or gas landfill extraction systems.
- They oversee gas collection landfill operations, including leachate and gas management or rail operations. They operate computerized control panels to manage gas compression operations.
- They develop or enforce procedures for normal operation, start-up, or shut-down of methane gas collection systems.
- They maintain records for landfill gas collection systems to demonstrate compliance with safety and environmental laws, regulations, or policies.
- They monitor gas collection systems emissions data, including bio methane or nitrous oxide levels.
- They optimize gas collection landfill operational costs and productivity to be consistent with safety and environmental rules and regulations.
- They implement landfill operational and emergency procedures.
- They inspect landfill or conduct site audits to ensure adherence to safety and environmental regulations.
- They monitor landfill permit requirements for updates.
- They oversee landfill gas collection system construction, maintenance, and repair activities.
- They prepare and manage landfill gas collection system budgets.
- They supervise landfill, well field, and other subordinate employees. They also coordinate the repair, overhaul, or routine maintenance of diesel engines used in landfill operations.
- They need to be able to read meters, gauges, or automatic recording devices at specified intervals to verify gas collection systems operating conditions. They diagnose or troubleshoot gas collection equipment and programmable logic controller (PLC) systems.
- They prepare reports on landfill operations and gas collection system productivity or efficiency. They recommend or implement practices to reduce turnaround time for trucks in and out of landfill site.
- They track volume and weight of landfill waste. ( Methane/Landfill Gas Collection System Operators, n.d.). (Speer, 2014).
Skills:
- Employers prefer candidates with strong computer and technical skills.
- Strong organizational skills are vital.
- Great reasoning skills are necessary.
- Must have the ability to follow safety precautions.
- Strong interpersonal skills. Gas Collection System Operators must have excellent communication skills so they can work with managers from other departments, as well as with the company's senior-level management.
- Strong leadership skills are required to keep the production process running smoothly. Gas Collection System Operators must motivate and direct the employees they manage.
- Strong problem-solving skills since they must be able to identify problems immediately and solve them.
- Strong time-management skills are required to meet production deadlines, since system operators must carefully manage their employees' time as well as their own. (Methane/Landfill Gas Collection System Operators, 2013).
