Gold Seal Steam: Stationary Engineer

Responsibilities of Engineer for the license:

Responsibilities vary greatly at this licensed level since this qualifies the operator by state code to operate a standard packaged boiler over 3,000 HP capacity or a power generation facility over 20,000+ HP capacity. Despite the range in the job scope, our operators all have core soft and hard skills that encompass the following capabilities:

• Boiler Start-up and Shut-Down

• Operational and Maintenance planning and scheduling.

• ASME Code Compliance with management of insurance and state inspections.

• Create and Monitor performance of facility operating procedures.

• Create, Manage, and Schedule maintenance assignments.

• Implementing corrective, preventative, and predictive maintenance programs to maintain as much uptime of the facility systems.

• Control safety procedures and programs to ensure all operating personal are removed from hazardous energy.

• Analyze Water Chemistry Program Management through testing in makeup water, condensate, deaerator, and boiler testing along with any other accessory systems required to determine the need for adjustments.

• Confirm, Test and Validate: Normal Operating Water Level (NOWL)

• Control of new system or expansion, equipment labeling and management of system modifications.  Related Engineering associated with major maintenance.

• Operational Rounds, Logging and Observations within frequencies that best fit the facilities needs.

• Maintain performance to air permit standards and environmental compliance pending plant requirements.

• Blowdown controls (surface and bottom)

• Weekly, Monthly and Annual Maintenance Tasks per OEM recommendations, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements to 12:90, ASME, and NBIC code.

• Testing of critical safety devices (interlocks) that ensure safe boiler operation.

• Inspection and Operation performance of all auxiliary equipment systems

• Condensate makeup and control to optimize plant performance

• Adequate fuel consumption for proper energy efficiency

• Testing backup emergency systems and secondary fuel supplies

• Monitor vendor support and performance

• Support Outages including annual insurance/state inspections and extended layups

• Review of previous log, rounds and facility communication about equipment operational events and reports.

For facilities where the gold seal engineer is designated as the Chief Engineer for the facility, The Training Center Group will handle all state compliance and designated an operator for Chief Engineer status.  All required insurance and state paperwork is part of our service.  Additional responsibilities with a designated chief engineer include ASME compliance, boiler repair management, control of hazardous energy, and energy performance for all facility equipment. 

State Requirements require operators to maintain sight and sound of the high energy equipment.  Training Center Group operators are able to safely perform related facility tasks without compromising any best in class service or compromise to the facility equipment.  This allows our service to be a valuable solution to your facility.