Training is essential to ensuring the safe and efficient operation of your assets, whilst upholding your duty of care.
Decrease organisational risk by ensuring your staff meet a competency framework required to operate your assets.
Improve operational efficiency and minimize operational costs through tailored training programmes for your plants.
Reduce the risk of failures by improving staff understanding of treatment processes and maintenance requirements.
Increase consistency across your team to streamline your operations, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and efficiently.
"The training material serves to condense knowledge gained through years of world class experience into a quick to use resource for operators, supervisors and process engineers."
Paul Gaydon - Performance and Technical Manager.
Our Training Offerings
If you are unsure on what offering you need, reach out to us and we can help you out with any questions you might have!
License to Operate
High quality training materials are a critical part of effective and consistent operations. Lutra’s License to Operate (LTO) program is an online training and operator competency assessment system developed for your specific treatment assets.
LTO offerings include:
- Site visits by one of our Process Engineers and our Videographer for information gathering and operations filming.
- Configuration of Learning Management System (LMS) for treatment plant.
- Interactive and video-based operations training material for treatment plant.
- SCADA troubleshooting videos.
- Development of training assessments and more.
Onsite Training
Our onsite training courses have been specifically designed to not only train your staff in important industry processes and scenarios, but also cover a wide range of specialised topics which are required for the day-to-day operation of a plant.
Training offerings include:
- Activated Sludge
- Biofilm
- Coagulation & Jar Testing
- Disinfection
- Filters
- Residuals Management
- Sludge Treatment
- MBR and more
SIM-PLANT
SIM-PLANT is a fully interactive simulated SCADA environment for water and wastewater treatment plants. SIM-PLANT allows trainee's to troubleshoot problems within a simulation, including being tested against a competency assessment.
Simulations include:
- Chlorination troubleshooting scenario's
- Activated sludge troubleshooting scenario's
- UV troubleshooting scenario's
- Separations troubleshooting scenario's
- Disinfection troubleshooting scenario's
- Clarification troubleshooting scenario's
- Filtration troubleshooting scenario's
- Coagulation and more troubleshooting scenario's
Case Studies
Horowhenua District Council
HDC were looking for a solution to assist with their operations, whilst not having to refer to an operations guide or manufacturer user manual. See how HDC utilised our License to Operate System to fill this need.
Matamata Piako District Council
When an operations & maintenance team needed a next generation training system for their staff to improve resilience, reliability, performance, plus operating efficiency. We developed a solution for them.
National Operator Training
A new generation of trainees are coming into the industry. See how we developed a national level training certificate, in partnership with Connexis, to provide the required training to safely operate and maintain treatment assets.
The following organisations have improved their performance, because of our training offerings
