Power Production Manager

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Potential job titles in this career

Plant Manager, Plant Supervisor, Power Plant Operations Manager

* Additional schooling, certification, or degrees maybe be required for some of the potential careers that are listed.

What will I do?

Supervise employees in geothermal power plants or well fields.

Oversee geothermal plant operations, maintenance, and repairs to ensure compliance with applicable standards or regulations.

Communicate geothermal plant conditions to employees.

Identify and evaluate equipment, procedural, or conditional inefficiencies involving geothermal plant systems.

Perform or direct the performance of preventative maintenance on geothermal plant equipment.

Inspect geothermal plant or injection well fields to verify proper equipment operations.

Develop or manage budgets for geothermal operations.

Select and implement corrosion control or mitigation systems for geothermal plants.

Develop operating plans and schedules for geothermal operations.

Record, review, or maintain daily logs, reports, maintenance, and other records associated with geothermal operations.

In this career, it is important to know

Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Engineering and Technology - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Personnel and Human Resources - Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

Physics - Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

It's useful to be good at

Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.

Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Employment trends

Location	Pay period	2022
Location	Pay period	10%	25%	Median%	75%	90%
United States	Hourly	$32.56	$41.03	$51.71	$67.03	$85.80
United States	Yearly	$67,720	$85,350	$107,560	$139,430	$178,470
Arizona	Hourly	$36.05	$44.66	$56.61	$74.39	$86.29
Arizona	Yearly	$74,980	$92,890	$117,740	$154,720	$179,480

2022 Median%
United States	$51.71 Hourly	$107,560 Yearly
Arizona	$56.61 Hourly	$117,740 Yearly

Employment (2022)

222,100 employees

Projected growth (2022 - 2032)

Little or no change

Projected job openings (2022 - 2032)

15,300

* Data obtained from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) under sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA).

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