Biomass Power Plant Managers
Manage operations at biomass power generation facilities. Direct work activities at plant, including supervision of operations and maintenance staff.
What you’d do
- Manage safety programs at power generation facilities.
- Review biomass operations performance specifications to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Review logs, datasheets, or reports to ensure adequate production levels and safe production environments or to identify abnormalities with power production equipment or processes.
- Supervise operations or maintenance employees in the production of power from biomass, such as wood, coal, paper sludge, or other waste or refuse.
- Supervise biomass plant or substation operations, maintenance, repair, or testing activities.
- Conduct field inspections of biomass plants, stations, or substations to ensure normal and safe operating conditions.
- Plan and schedule plant activities, such as wood, waste, or refuse fuel deliveries, ash removal, and regular maintenance.
- Prepare and manage biomass plant budgets.
Skills that matter
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
- Reading Comprehension
- Complex Problem Solving
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Maintenance Manager
- Maintenance Supervisor
- Operations Supervisor
- Plant Manager
- Fuel Manager
- Maintenance Superintendent
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