From Critical Facilities Technician to Senior Critical Facilities Technician
A step up the ladder, typically 2 years.
There’s a page for this pathway in , with its licences and local details.
Skills to build
What a Senior Critical Facilities Technician needs beyond a Critical Facilities Technician.
Procedures and documents
- Carry out a method of procedure (MOP) Up to Leads others
- Follow an emergency operating procedure (EOP) Up to Independent
- Work within change management Up to Independent
- Write and review a MOP Independent
Safe isolation
- Isolate and lock out a single energy source Up to Leads others
- Isolate plant with several energy sources Up to Independent
- Authorise isolations Independent, desirable
Monitoring and response
- Triage DCIM and BMS alarms Up to Leads others
- Read trends and capacity Up to Independent
Leadership
- Coach and assess others Independent
- Supervise contractors and vendors Independent
Power transfer and generation
- Operate a static transfer switch Independent
- Respond to a utility failure Up to Independent
- Start, load-test and stop a generator Up to Independent
- Transfer and retransfer at an ATS by hand Up to Independent
- Restore the site from a black start Assisted, desirable
LV distribution
- Operate LV switchboards and breakers Up to Independent
UPS and batteries
- Put a UPS into bypass and return it Up to Independent
- Respond to a UPS alarm Up to Independent
Cooling plant
- Respond to rising temperatures Up to Independent
- Restart cooling in an emergency Independent
- Start, stop and change over chillers Up to Independent
Commissioning
- Run functional performance tests Up to Independent
- Take part in integrated systems testing Up to Independent
BMS and fire
- Inhibit and restore gas suppression Assisted
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Sources and licences
- Critical Facilities reference framework © Facility Labs. (CC BY 4.0)
- ISCO-08, International Labour Organization, as published in ESCO v1.2.1. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents)