Arm-Chair

Irrigation Officer

Natural Resources


  • Average Salary

    RM2800 - RM 4500

  • Career Trends

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  • Compability

What is Irrigation Officer?

Irrigation Officer is someone who designs and implements programs and strategies related to water resources issues such as supply, quality, and regulatory compliance issues.

Minimum education level

 

PT3

SPM

STPM

Diploma

Degree

Average Salary

RM2800 - RM 4500

Example of a Job Position

Hydrogeologist
Research Hydraulic Engineer
National Stormwater Leader
Senior Hydrogeologist
Water Resource Senior Engineer

Task

? Conduct, or supervise the implementation of, investigations on matters such as water storage, waste water disposal, pollutants, permits, or other compliance and regulatory issues ? Expand the strategy for watershed operations to meet the goals of providing clean water ? Writing proposals, project reports, information brochures, or other documents about waste water purification, water supply and demand, or other water resources ? Review or evaluate designs for water containment facilities, rainwater channels, flood control facilities, or other hydraulic structuresPerform hydrological, hydraulic or water modeling

Knowledge

Mathematics

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Customer and Personal Services

Knowledge of principles and processes to provide services for customers and personal. This includes assessing customer needs, meeting service quality standards, and evaluating customer satisfaction.

Computers and Electronics

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Administration and Management

Knowledge of business and management principles including strategic planning, resource allocation, human resource modeling, leadership techniques, production methods, and coordination between people and resources.

English

Knowledge of the structure and content of English, including the meaning and spelling of each word, composition rules, and grammar.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge of practical applications in engineering and technology. This includes the application of principles, techniques, procedures and equipment for designing and producing various goods and services.

Design

Knowledge of techniques, equipment and design principles including in producing precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models.

Physics

Knowledge and predictions about the principles of physics, law, relations between the two, and applications for understanding liquids, materials, atmospheric, mechanical, electrical, atomic, atomic sub-structures and processes.

Geography

Knowledge of principles and methods in explaining land, sea and air mass features, including their physical characteristics, location, reciprocal relationships, and distribution of plant, animal and human life.

Chemistry

Knowledge of the composition, structure and chemical properties of substances and chemical processes and transformations that occur. Includes the use of chemicals and their interactions, alarms, production techniques and disposal methods

Skills

Active Listening

Give full attention to the words of others, set aside time to understand the points presented, ask questions appropriately, and not interrupt at the wrong time

Talking

Talk to others to convey information effectively

Writing

Communicate effectively through writing that suits the needs of the audience

Complex Problem Solving

Identify complex problems and review related information in order to develop and evaluate options and solutions that can be applied.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to the problems handled

Consideration and Decision Making

Consider the shortcomings and advantages of potential action choices to choose the most appropriate action.

Reading Understanding

Understand sentences and paragraphs written in work documents.

System Analysis

Determine how the system should work and how the changes in conditions, operations, and environment affect the results achieved.

System Evaluation

Identify steps or indicators of system performance and actions needed to develop or improve performance, relative to system objectives.

Time Management

Set personal time with other people's time

Capability

  • 1

    Information Arrangement - The ability to arrange various things and actions in a certain sequence or pattern according to the rules specified (for example: number patterns, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

  • 2

    Speaking Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so that others can understand what is being said

  • 3

    Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so that others can understand

  • 4

    Speaking Articulation - Clear pronunciation of letters / words

  • 5

    Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to certain problems in order to produce reasonable answers.

  • 6

    Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules and conclusions (including finding relationships between seemingly unconnected events).

  • 7

    Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or maybe wrong. This does not involve solving the problem, only knowing if there is a problem.

  • 8

    Near Distance Vision - The ability to see details at close range (a few feet away from the object).

  • 9

    Written Understanding - Ability to read and understand information and ideas conveyed through writing

  • 10

    Understanding Talks - Ability to identify and understand other people's conversations.

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