From Senior Critical Facilities Technician to Senior Technician, Electrical in Australia
A sideways move on the ladder.
Skills to build
What a Senior Technician, Electrical needs beyond a Senior Critical Facilities Technician.
Safe isolation
- Isolate plant with several energy sources Up to Leads others
- Prove dead before touching Up to Leads others
- Remove isolations and restore plant Up to Leads others
LV distribution
- Operate LV switchboards and breakers Up to Leads others
- Trace the power path and its redundancy Up to Leads others
- AI load swings and how they are smoothed Independent
- Connect rack power and busway Independent
- Survey electrical plant with a thermal imager Independent
- Work on in-rack DC busbars and power shelves Independent
UPS and batteries
- Put a UPS into bypass and return it Up to Leads others
- Respond to a UPS alarm Up to Leads others
- Battery room safety Independent
- Inspect and test batteries Independent
- Operate a flywheel UPS Independent, desirable
Power transfer and generation
- Respond to a utility failure Up to Leads others
- Transfer and retransfer at an ATS by hand Up to Leads others
- Coordinate load changes with the site plant or utility Independent
- Operate and respond to a site battery energy storage system Independent
- Prime and behind-the-meter power Independent
- Restore the site from a black start Up to Independent
MV switching
- Earth and lock MV equipment Independent
- Inspect a transformer Independent
- Prove MV equipment dead Independent
- Rack an MV circuit breaker Independent
- Read MV systems and their protection Independent
- Write and carry out a switching programme Independent
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Sources and licences
- Critical Facilities reference framework © Facility Labs. (CC BY 4.0)
- Units of competency from training.gov.au, © Commonwealth of Australia, captured 2026.10. Kept as published. (Training package content, © Commonwealth of Australia: kept as published, no adapted copies)
- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, OSCA – Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0, and its correspondence to ISCO-08. CC BY 4.0. (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)