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Occupation

Water treatment operatives

Water treatment operatives treat water to ensure safety for drinking, irrigation, or other use. They treat and clean drinking water before it is distributed to the consumer and process waste water to remove harmful substances before returning it to rivers and seas. They take samples and perform tests to analyse the water quality.

Based on analysing 2264 job ads this job spends 42.9% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 12 skills asked for, of which 4.2% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £26,000 - £30,000.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

West Midlands
Outer London - South
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Outer London - East and North East
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Perform water treatment procedures

Found in 176 job ads (17.1%)

Treat contaminated water

Found in 141 job ads (13.7%)

Monitor water quality

Found in 115 job ads (11.2%)

Maintain water treatment equipment

Found in 89 job ads (8.6%)

Carry out waste water treatment

Found in 81 job ads (7.9%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Communication

Found in 722 job ads (2.9%)

Verifying identities and documentation

Found in 565 job ads (2.2%)

Complying with health and safety procedures

Found in 565 job ads (2.2%)

Operating petroleuem, chemical or water processing systems or equipment

Found in 480 job ads (1.9%)

Control temperature

Found in 443 job ads (1.8%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Water collection, treatment and supply

Found in 527 job ads (28.1%)

Construction of water projects

Found in 440 job ads (23.5%)

Renting and leasing of water transport equipment

Found in 188 job ads (10.0%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 111 job ads (5.9%)

Manufacture of household and sanitary goods and of toilet requisites

Found in 65 job ads (4.9%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.