Lead Boiler Operator Tasks:
- Perform monthly boiler room facility inspections and make sure the boiler feed water chemistry is correct.
- Ensure that the boiler operators perform their tasks as listed below.
- Read meters, gauges, or automatic recording devices at specified intervals to verify operating conditions.
- Record data such as temperature of equipment, hours of operation, fuel consumed, temperature or pressure, water levels, analysis of flue gases, voltage load, and generator balance.
- Adjust manual controls or overrides automatic controls to bring equipment into recommended or prescribed operating ranges, switch to backup equipment or systems, or shut down equipment.
- Visually inspect equipment at periodic intervals to detect malfunctions or the need for repair, adjustment, or lubrication.
- Maintain equipment by tightening fittings, repacking bearings, replacing packing glands, sight glass, gaskets, valves, recorders, and gauges, and cleaning or replacing burners or other components.
- Oil and lubricate equipment.
- Record operation and maintenance actions taken during the shift in the operator's logbook.
- Perform minor preventative maintenance on plant equipment such as the water systems, steam generators, air compressors, chillers, and pumps, which require medium to heavy lifting.
- Building Management System (BMS)
- Monitor critical equipment for environmental alerts and alarms
- Inform the equipment owner and facilities supervisor of alarms
- Decipher BMS data to identify root causes of alarms
- Manage in-house and contracted work performed in the Boiler Room and the Critical Utility Room.
- Minor Maintenance includes, but is not limited to:
- Change gauges (temperature, pressure, etc.) within the plant
- Remove and replace electric motors and belts
- Remove and replace filters, oils, and other lubricating fluids on all plant equipment
- Remove and replace gaskets
- Remove and replace valves within the plant
- Install pipe plugs as needed
- Clean the Boiler Room and the Critical Utilities Room (pick up trash, take out trash, and mop)
- Clean out the level sight glasses on all boilers
- Change out control valves as needed
- Secure all types of tubing and piping as needed
- Paint equipment as needed
- Change out light bulbs and must be able to climb ladders.
- Replace fuses
- Assist the Facility supervisor as needed.
- Run and maintain the Plant Water System while on shift
- Run and maintain the Plant Air Compressors while on shift
- Utilize the Building Management System for Alarm Reporting and Response