Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner Clean and repair septic tanks, sewer lines, or drains. May patch walls and partitions of tank, replace damaged drain tile, or repair breaks in underground piping.
Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner is Also Know as
In different settings, Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner is titled as
- Drain Cleaner
- Drain Technician
- Public Works Technician
- Septic Cleaner
- Septic Pump Truck Driver
- Septic Tank Service Technician
- Service Technician
- Sewer Bricklayer
Education and Training of Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner
Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner is categorized in Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner
Little or no previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a waiter or waitress even if he/she has never worked before.
Education Required for Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner
Some of these occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate.
Degrees Related to Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner
- Bachelor in Plumbing Technology/Plumber
- Associate Degree Courses in Plumbing Technology/Plumber
- Masters Degree Courses in Plumbing Technology/Plumber
Training Required for Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner in different industries are
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Pipelayers
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators
- Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Construction Laborers
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
- Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
- Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
- Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
What Do Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner do?
- Drive trucks to transport crews, materials, and equipment.
- Communicate with supervisors and other workers, using equipment such as wireless phones, pagers, or radio telephones.
- Prepare and keep records of actions taken, including maintenance and repair work.
- Operate sewer cleaning equipment, including power rodders, high-velocity water jets, sewer flushers, bucket machines, wayne balls, and vac-alls.
- Ensure that repaired sewer line joints are tightly sealed before backfilling begins.
- Withdraw cables from pipes and examine them for evidence of mud, roots, grease, and other deposits indicating broken or clogged sewer lines.
- Install rotary knives on flexible cables mounted on machine reels, according to the diameters of pipes to be cleaned.
- Measure excavation sites, using plumbers' snakes, tapelines, or lengths of cutting heads within sewers, and mark areas for digging.
- Locate problems, using specially designed equipment, and mark where digging must occur to reach damaged tanks or pipes.
- Clean and repair septic tanks, sewer lines, or related structures such as manholes, culverts, and catch basins.
- Start machines to feed revolving cables or rods into openings, stopping machines and changing knives to conform to pipe sizes.
- Service, adjust, and make minor repairs to equipment, machines, and attachments.
- Inspect manholes to locate sewer line stoppages.
- Cut damaged sections of pipe with cutters, remove broken sections from ditches, and replace pipe sections, using pipe sleeves.
- Dig out sewer lines manually, using shovels.
- Break asphalt and other pavement so that pipes can be accessed, using airhammers, picks, and shovels.
- Cover repaired pipes with dirt, and pack backfilled excavations, using air and gasoline tampers.
- Requisition or order tools and equipment.
- Rotate cleaning rods manually, using turning pins.
- Clean and disinfect domestic basements and other areas flooded by sewer stoppages.
- Tap mainline sewers to install sewer saddles.
- Update sewer maps and manhole charts.
Qualities of Good Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner
- Air hammers
- Air tampers
- Bucket machines
- Caulk dispensing tools
- Claw hammers
- Dirt shovels
- End pipe wrenches
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- High velocity water jetters
- Liquid pumps
- Material pumping hoses
- Measuring tapes
- Mobile radios
- Mobile tracked excavators
- Personal computers
- Pipe cutters
- Portable concrete mixers
- Portable drills
- Portable sewer cleaning machines
- Power rodders
- Power screeds
- Power trowels
- Prying bars
- Septic pumping trucks
- Sewer cleaners
- Sewer cleaning rods
- Sewer surveillance cameras
Technology Skills required for Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaner
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Route mapping software
- Web browser software
- Word processing software
- Work scheduling software