An Innovative Training Method Helps an Environmental Engineer Appreciate the Role of Operators

Cross-training in operations helped Jordan Damerel bring more empathy and deeper knowledge to his role as director of engineering for a California agency

An Innovative Training Method Helps an Environmental Engineer Appreciate the Role of Operators

From left, operators Gary Crawford, Chris O’Connor and Nurel Ramadan monitor the plant from the control center.

As Jordan Damerel cranked the hand wheel of the heavy gate on the bar screen so his operations teammates could maintain it, it occurred to him that an electric actuator would be so much easier, and well worth the cost, if only the designers had included one in their...

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