谢谢[FONT="]smokeman [/FONT]
提供更多有关信息。不过看到帖子里关于电厂集控室运行的工作情况，我觉得可能不是很准确。电厂的控制室显示屏应放置在方便的视角范围内，如果操作员离操作台[FONT="]3[/FONT]
米的话，通常不会超过[FONT="]180[/FONT]
度，主要的应在[FONT="]60[/FONT]
度以内。实际上经常要看的也就[FONT="]3[/FONT]
、[FONT="]4[/FONT]
个显示屏，如主要参数趋势图，总体和关键系统流程参数图再加上警报显示屏。就像开车，你不需要老看着所有仪表指示，时间长了，就会逐渐变成 Automatic Pilot。 现代化的电厂都是采用[FONT="]DCS [/FONT]
控制，运行并不需要时时盯着屏幕，因为任何系统里的微小异常都会得到不同层次的警报。只要运行人员不时瞄一眼参数趋势图，及时处理警报，一般不会错失调整的机会。有时候夜班控制室运行也看足球、看电影。看书、上网也很平常。我们的集控室配有跑步机和哑铃等健身器材，运行人员可以边锻炼边监盘。当然如果厂子的设备比较陈旧，控制水平落后，运行人员恐怕要盯屏幕的时间长一些，调整操作要频繁一些。大型厂子的集控室一般要求不得离人，因此如果监盘的要去卫生间或吃饭，值长或其他人会帮着看一会。我以前的一个公司明确要求值长或值长安排其他人给控制室操作员每值[FONT="]2[/FONT]
小时的自由时间。
另外，[FONT="]4[/FONT]
级在电厂的起薪只有[FONT="] 20 [/FONT]
多点也似乎不太合理。我们前一阵招的[FONT="]4[/FONT]
级起薪接近[FONT="]35[/FONT]
元。由于[FONT="] steam time [/FONT]
是热动学生拿证的必要条件，大部分的厂子都是白用实习生。如果厂子还给热动实习生发工资说明这家厂子真是不错。公司与公司的差别真是很大。如果你申请到了我们公司的[FONT="]Labour [/FONT]
岗位，时薪就是[FONT="]31[/FONT]
元。听说我们另一个厂有两个[FONT="] Labour [/FONT]
后来也考了证，成了很不错的集控室运行。以下链接的
辅助设备操作员（除灰）虽然不需要证，但是一个极佳的踏入热动行业电厂运行的路，因为这个岗位本身就是运行的一部份。你要是拿到这个岗位，Steam Time 就不用愁了。
也很感谢热能老工的帖子。每个人因为各种限制，多少会犯管中窥豹、盲人摸象的错误。希望更多的热动工程师和热动学生来分享经验教训、心得体会，使大家对这个行业有更准确更全面的了解。看来安省目前的情况不是很好。不过我感觉阿省还是红红火火。我们公司最近除了辞职岗位的补缺外，同时也在为[FONT="]5[/FONT]
个值再招一个备用。随便上网看了看，发现我们的邻居连续多年加拿大[FONT="] 100 [/FONT]
最佳雇主的[FONT="] Capital Power [/FONT]
（两年前从[FONT="]Epcor[/FONT]
分出）也放出了[FONT="]5[/FONT]个电厂运行岗位，待遇比我们强。估计也是在补缺、储备热动工程师。[FONT="]Husky Energy [/FONT]
算是待遇文化都不错的石油企业。如果你去他们的招聘网站，键入[FONT="] Operator [/FONT]
关键词在[FONT="]operations [/FONT]类查询，你就会发现从[FONT="]Field Operator [/FONT]
到[FONT="]Process Operator - Prince George Refinery[/FONT]
，从[FONT="]Operator - Lloydminster Ethanol Plant [/FONT]
到[FONT="]Thermal Plant Operator (Lloydminster)[/FONT]
，到[FONT="]Process Operator - Lloydminster Upgrader [/FONT]
很多热动工作。从我们跳槽的同事反馈来的信息，他们的公司不管是打广告还是不打广告也在找人，只是更愿意让员工介绍、拉人罢了。
半年前有一篇热动工程师需求的文章链接如下：[FONT="]Power engineers in demand[/FONT]为了防止丢失，我抠在这里供大家参考。
Power engineers in demand
Critical labour shortage forecast for energy sector
Derek Sankey, For Postmedia News
Published: Saturday, October 22, 2011
From coast to coast, power engineers are in high demand and the need is rapidly becoming the most critical in the oil and gas sector, according to industry and postsecondary sources.
The job outlook is strong for anybody heading into the field, which includes several levels of certification for anybody who works on steam-powered equipment or in electricity plants, says Mary MacDonald, dean of the MacPhail School of Energy at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary.
She is constantly hearing from large corporations in the heart of the country's oilpatch about the impending shortage of power engineers, along with an equally urgent need for instrumentation technicians and technologists.
"Power engineering is the area that's most stressed in terms of employment and future outlook," MacDonald says. "Whether it's mining at Syncrude or a (steam-assisted gravity drainage) project at Suncor or Total, for example, they all use steam and so you need power engineers."
From power engineers working in the pulp and paper industry in New Brunswick to those working at electrical plants across Canada to the massive oilsands projects in Alberta, the demand is going to escalate dramatically in the next few years, she says.
Shortages have been looming for several years. In 2002, for example, TransAlta Corp. gave SAIT a one-time, $4.5-million donation to help ensure more graduates joined the dwindling numbers of power engineers in the field because of a retiring workforce.
"They knew then that their workforce of power engineers was aging and that there would be a shortage," she says. "We've known in the industry for quite some time that this was going to occur."
Now, that labour crunch has arrived in full force and institutions across Canada are scrambling to expand their programs by working with industry and governments to secure funding.
When SAIT's new Power Engineering Centre opens in 2012, it will be a big step forward in helping to alleviate some of the pressure. The 40,000-square-foot facility will quadruple the number of students graduating by 2015.
Tom Jinjoe graduated in April and found no trouble landing a job. He's now working at a sour gas plant in Alberta for Shell Canada.
"I wanted a career change, so that was the first step," says Jinjoe, who heard about power engineering from friends and decided to look into it further.
"It was definitely something I was interested in because there was such a wide variety of topics and information to study; it's just non-stop learning."
He advises high school students looking to break into the field to do well in school because programs and employers are highly competitive, despite the looming labour shortage.
"Companies are looking for the top students - the best of the best," Jinjoe says.
He spends his days making his regular rounds, checking the equipment at his site and troubleshooting when something breaks down. He can isolate certain pieces of equipment when something does go wrong to allow various types of skilled tradespeople to come in and fix those problems.
Jinjoe earned his Class 3 steam ticket, as it's called, which is the middle and most common certification out of five classes, ranging from the highest, Class 1, to the lowest level of Class 5.
One of the things that appealed to him so much about the program is the wide variety of projects where power engineers are employed, making his longterm career prospects very strong.
"Power engineers can work almost anywhere," he says. "There are so many different places to work."
They are employed as building operators anywhere there's a boiler, from hospitals to hotels, up to being a chief operator for a large oilsands company.
MacDonald says the average age of power engineers is in the late-50s and Alberta only graduates about 360 graduates across the province each year.
Yet, one large oilsands employer has 400 power engineers on staff with requirements to hire an additional 1,200 in the next 10 years.
"It's in the next few years where the crunch is really coming," she says. "Some of the oil companies have task forces in their HR departments just dealing with the power engineering crunch."
Every province in Canada has an independent regulatory body to oversee power engineers - in Alberta, it's the Alberta Boiler Safety Association - who oversee accreditation of institutions' programs and their graduates.
It's a lucrative time to be entering the field.
"In the last boom, there were companies that were offering (Class 2) power engineers $1-million contracts to sign up for four years," MacDonald says.
"I've heard one company . . . mention that they would offer employees who are third-class (power engineers) who go up to second-class a $100,000 bonus just to get that (additional) class level."
She is now working with industry to secure funding to help expand the program even further in anticipation of the growing needs of employers.
"Right now, we're working with industry to help replace the government funding so we can grow the program," MacDonald says.
"I haven't had any kind of trouble getting that support."
Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald
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