Minimum Requirements

• Minnesota 2nd Class “A” Boiler operator license.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedural manuals and to understand and carry out instructions, written or oral, as furnished.
• Ability to write routine reports and record information in logs.
• Ability to perform basic mathematical analysis including consumption rates, proportions and percentages.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience with a variety of logistics, operations, boiler, and/or turbine generator operating and information systems.
• Biomass power plant experience.

Responsibilities Include:

• Operates and maintains stationary engines and mechanical equipment such as steam engines, air compressors, turbines, generators, motors and stream boilers.
• Reads meters and gauges or automated recording devices at specified intervals to verify operating conditions.
• Records data such as temperature of equipment, hours of operation, fuel consumed, temperature or pressure, water levels, analyses of flue gases, voltage load and generator balance.
• Adjusts manual controls or override automatic controls to bring equipment into recommended or prescribed operating ranges, switch to backup equipment or systems or shutdown equipment.
• Visually inspects equipment at periodic intervals to detect malfunctions or need for repair, adjustment, or lubrication.
• Maintains equipment by tightening fittings, repacking bearings, replacing packing glands, gaskets, valves, recorders, and gauges and cleaning, and replacing burners or other components.
• Monitor and record renewable fuel inventories and fuel deliveries.
• Monitor, record and verify proper fuel material mixtures including moisture content; make recommendations for optimized fuel usage. 
• Performs water titration tests and pours chemical additives into treatment tank to prevent scale buildup and to clean boiler lines.
• Record operations and maintenance actions taken during shift in operator’s log.
• Communicate concerns, issues and actions taken to supervisors and to operators for oncoming shift.
• Carries out responsibilities in accordance with the organization policies and applicable laws.
• Other duties as may be assigned.