Water Treatment Plant Technician

Pillango Placements

Full-time Other-General
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Location
cape town, city of cape town metropolitan municipality, South-Africa
Posted
July 01, 2026

Job Description


SUMMARY:
Keep water safe, compliant, and flowing — our plant runs on your checks, tweaks, and fast fixes.

POSITION INFO:
The Water Treatment Plant Technician operates, monitors, maintains, and optimises water treatment systems to ensure consistent production and distribution of safe, compliant, high-quality water. This includes routine inspections, water quality testing, preventative maintenance, fault-finding, and operational adjustments in line with legislation, safety requirements, and water quality standards. Duties and Responsibilities Operate and monitor plant equipment and treatment processes (filtration, disinfection, chemical dosing, pumping). Monitor telemetry, flow rates, pressures, reservoir levels, and overall treatment performance; respond to alarms and deviations. Collect samples (boreholes, plants, reservoirs, distribution networks) and perform routine tests (pH, conductivity, turbidity, chlorine residual, temperature, et...