This unit specifies the skills and knowledge required to monitor waste landfill sites. It includes managing personnel, equipment and materials required to monitor site operations to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. It also includes monitoring batters, landfill cells and drainage systems and organising sampling and testing to manage drainage contamination and odour, methane gas, groundwater and noise levels, and to ensure infrastructure is maintained in accordance with regulatory requirements.

A person who achieves this unit of competency is able to use specialised knowledge to complete routine and non-routine tasks and deal with predictable and sometimes unpredictable problems.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit of competency at the time of publication.