All that is required of you to do is, just reposition some toggle switches to get the desired result. The toggles are basically used to start and stop pumps and to open and close valves. Other devices are used to control flows and pressures etc.

That was the easy part.  This career can be extremely easy at times and other times it can be extrememly complex while you are racing around like a wild man. It comes and it goes.  Don't get the idea that easy is business as usual.  It isn't.  It may look easy to an outsider watching a seasoned professional but, that's only because the professional has worked hard to know the facility they are working in.  There are many days and nights where they really have to work very hard and use their noodle to do the right things, at the right time, at the right speed and in the prescribed fashion.  They have to know all the ramifications of starting that pump.  What happens upstream and downstream when they push the button.  How it effects pressure, flows, temperatures, levels, vessels and exchangers in numerous systems that may be directly or indirectly influenced.  It takes training, desire, talent, effort and years of dedication.  Do you have what it takes to be the best you can be?  If you do, this could be what you are looking for.

You really have to know and understand the operating principles of processes and equipment, what the dangers are and what the idiosyncrasies of the systems are.  It takes many years of training and operating to get proficient at what we do here.  It is not a cake walk.

When you watch a professional go through the motions they really make it look like it is easy.  Just remember, it took years of effort for that operator to get to that point.  Even though they may make it look easy, at the end of many shifts, an operator goes home very tired.

If you are working as a Control Room Operator it can be more complex and very nerve racking. It can also look rather relaxing if you really have it all together and it's an unusually quiet day. Again it may look easy and like the Control Room Operator is relaxing but, he/she is constantly focusing on what is going on in every part of the facility and mapping out in their mind, what they will do throughout the day as the day's priorities change.  Again it takes years of hard work to get there.  For those who have the desire it comes with time.

Most systems used for process control are computerized.  Many are called a computerized control system or DCS. Lots to know about these things and that's because they do lots. You’d have to have a wall of switches and controllers a mile long to keep up with everything they can do. Fortunately there are other professionals on site that handle most of the technical items for these DCS computers. All the Control Room Operator has to do is operate the equipment out in the units with it via the television screens used to view process conditions. As the years go on you get more and more comfortable with it.  But again, there is lots to know about computerized control systems.

These computerized control systems are very reliable but, they do have their problems and you are expected to know how to remedy some of them.  If it's 2 o'clock in the morning with no one around to help, you'd better be on top of your training so you know what to do.  There are higher function and more complicated issues that do arise from time to time but, that will be for the specialists to deal with.  When that happens, it's time to get some one out of bed.  And it never matters how important the issues are, you'll never be totally comfortable calling people at 2 AM.

The pay is more in the Control Room and they never put you in the Control Room unless you want it and are capable. Don’t ever get the idea they'll force you into it. That would be like you being a bus driver and your employer telling you that you are now going to be flying a 747 and performing trans Atlantic flights. Not everyone is cut out to do it. Most like it because it is a more challenging and cleaner work environment. Ya, they like the higher pay scale too.

• Introduction

• A Free Education for advancement at your employers expense.

• P.E.T. can be as easy as one , two, three, four.

• Men and women in the business.

1. Steve. The "Bad Boy of P.E.T." who has hit the six figure income bracket.
2. Don. Work in at the brewery.
3. John. Chief Engineer at the brewery.
4. Chad. A newbe.
5. Matt. A newbe.
6. Warren. A newbe.
7. Older Warren. Lots of experience.
8. Chris. He used P.E.T. as a spring board to another career.
9. Earl. Retired but still working full time???
10. Brian. Working the 9 to 5, Monday to Friday routine.
11. Hanna. Works in the electrical power generating industry.

• Why haven’t you heard of Stationary Engineering or P.E.T. before and if you did, why didn’t you hear about all the great opportunities?

• Scope of P.E.T. Technology.

• Jobs you might qualify for and jobs you might want. This is why this career can be recession proof.

• DARK SECRETS. ****Things people do and shouldn’t do, while on shift.

• The difference between tickets or certificates and the diploma.

 
• Why and how this career has recession proofing.

 
• The down side to this career.

• The art of finding employers:

• Internet links to:

• Employers names, companies, addresses, telephone and fax numbers.

• Advancement tips.

• Overseas opportunities.

• How to cut your income taxes up to 50%.

• How you can work income tax free.

• Where to get training materials, find the institutions and registration information.

• Study tips to get your diploma fast and easy.

• Developing the killer resume.

• JOBS HOT LINE.


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