From Senior Technician, Electrical to Chief Engineer
A step up the ladder, typically 3 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 Senior Technician, Electrical.
Commissioning
- Accept capacity in phases Leads others
- Check operational readiness at handover Leads others
- Work in a site that is part live and part under construction Leads others
- Run functional performance tests Independent
- Take part in integrated systems testing Independent
LV distribution
- AI load swings and how they are smoothed Up to Leads others
Site safety
- Assess risk and plan safe work Leads others
Safe isolation
- Authorise isolations Up to Leads others
Leadership
- Coach and assess others Up to Leads others
- Find root causes and learn from incidents Leads others
Power transfer and generation
- Coordinate load changes with the site plant or utility Up to Leads others
- Prime and behind-the-meter power Up to Leads others
Cooling plant
- Psychrometrics and the thermal envelope Leads others
MV switching
- Read MV systems and their protection Up to Leads others
Monitoring and response
- Read trends and capacity Leads others
Procedures and documents
- Work within change management Leads others
- Write and review a MOP Up to Leads others
Emergency response
- Recognise and report a suspected cyber incident Up to Independent
Liquid cooling
- Know who owns each part of the loop 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)