From Lead Critical Facilities Technician to Chief Engineer
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 Chief Engineer needs beyond a Lead Critical Facilities Technician.
LV distribution
- AI load swings and how they are smoothed Leads others
- Trace the power path and its redundancy Leads others
Site safety
- Assess risk and plan safe work Up to Leads others
Safe isolation
- Authorise isolations Up to Leads others
Commissioning
- Check operational readiness at handover Leads others
- Run functional performance tests Independent
- Take part in integrated systems testing Independent
Leadership
- Find root causes and learn from incidents Up to Leads others
Power transfer and generation
- Prime and behind-the-meter power Leads others
Cooling plant
- Psychrometrics and the thermal envelope Leads others
MV switching
- Read MV systems and their protection Leads others
- Write and carry out a switching programme Independent, desirable
Monitoring and response
- Read trends and capacity Leads others
Procedures and documents
- Work within change management Up to Leads others
- Write and review a MOP Leads others
Liquid cooling
- Know who owns each part of the loop Up to Leads others, desirable
- Fill, flush and vent a TCS loop Independent, desirable
- Liquid-cooled IT and its loops Independent, desirable
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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)