Work involves operating and maintaining low or stationary high-pressure boilers, water softeners, chillers, compressors, generators, and other equipment in a central heating and power plant. Employees in this class either work on a shift under the immediate supervision of a higher level operator, or are responsible for operating and for performing minor, routine maintenance and repair work on power plant equipment. Work includes maintaining constant surveillance over equipment operation by reading gauges, meters and charts, and by testing water and recording this information to ensure efficiency and safety.
Work also includes assisting in maintenance and repair work in the power plant.
Each task is performed according to detailed instructions, written or oral. Assignments are usually for a short duration and when completed are usually checked for accuracy, adherence to instructions and established regulations, as well as the worker's rate of performance. Where the employee is confronted with a variety of duties susceptible to different methods of solution which, in turn, places a correspondingly higher demand upon resourcefulness and concentration. Positions which require the analysis and evaluation of raw data and the rendering of conclusions would, in many instances, fall into this category. This level involves simple analysis of data, identification of easily distinguishable facts and recognition of differences in related situations.