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Career Details :: Power Distributors and Dispatchers
Description
Coordinate, regulate, or distribute electricity or steam.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Controls and operates equipment to regulate or distribute electricity or steam, according to data provided by recording or indicating instruments or computers.
- Directs activities of personnel engaged in the controlling and operating of electrical distribution equipment and machinery.
- Inspects equipment to ensure specifications are met and to detect defects.
- Notifies workers or utilities of electrical and steam distribution process changes.
- Repairs, maintains, and cleans equipment and machines, using hand tools.
- Tends auxiliary equipment used in the power distribution process.
- Turns and moves controls to adjust and activate power distribution equipment and machines.
- Monitors switchboard and control board to ensure equipment operation and electrical and steam distribution.
- Adjusts controls to regulate the flow of power between generating stations, substations, and distribution lines.
- Compiles and records operational data, such as chart and meter readings, power demands, and usage and operating time.
- Calculates and determines load estimates or equipment requirements to control electrical distribution equipment or stations.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Processing Information
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
- Operation Monitoring
- Operation and Control
- Equipment Maintenance
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Repairing
Frequent Work Context
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Job-Required Social Interaction
- Importance of Being Aware of New Events
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