It tests applicants' math skills as well as their mechanical abilities. If you're interested in this career, be sure to take mathematics and mechanical courses. Ashcroft says that his company provides training to its own employees as well as to people with other companies. A new employee will train both in the control room and outside. They learn using online procedures, as well as practising with computer simulations of situations.
Most employees take six months to a year before they reach the place where they can work alone.
Oil pipeline operators must be detail-oriented, flexible and have good colour vision. They must also be good at working with machinery and must have good people skills, since they work on a team.