Power Plant Operator
Controls generation and distribution equipment on rotating shifts. Licensed, procedural and extremely hard to offshore.
- Pay band (est.)
- $85k–$130k
- Time to competence
- 4 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- site
- Leverage
- low
- Place constraint
- medium
- Physical demand
- 45/100
- Hours burden
- 65/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play3th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge16th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage14th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand53th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay73th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body48th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy11th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit49th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility26th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill79th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load26th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance64th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Night shifts for years; plants sit far from cities.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is medium. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 65/100 and people intensity 35/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS-style outlook and wage patterns; estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.