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Career Details :: Power-Generating Plant Operators, Except Auxiliary Equipment Operators
Description
Control or operate machinery, such as steam-driven turbogenerators, to generate electric power, often through the use of panelboards, control boards, or semi-automatic equipment.
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
- Monitors control and switchboard gauges to determine if electrical power distribution meets specifications.
- Adjusts controls on equipment to generate specified electrical power.
- Operates or controls machinery that generates electric power, using control boards or semiautomatic equipment.
- Compiles and records operational data on specified forms.
- Maintains and repairs electrical power distribution machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
- Examines and tests electrical power distribution machinery and equipment, using testing devices.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Repairing & Maintaining Electrical Equipment
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Degree of Automation
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
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