Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator
New YorkActive
- Exam
- State exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- None
A wastewater treatment plant operator operates and controls equipment that processes sewage or wastewater at any sewage/wastewater treatment plant.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- State exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- Certification required
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
- Physical requirement
- No physical requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
- Division
- Division of Water
- Board
- Bureau of Water Compliance Programs
- Address
- 625 Broadway, 4th Floor Albany, NY 12233
- Phone
- (518) 402-8177
- Agency website
- https://www.dec.ny.gov/
- Last updated
- February 3, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
- Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator 51-8031.00
Source and verification
This record is New York's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
Before you apply, confirm every detail with Bureau of Water Compliance Programs — see the issuing body section above.
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