How do they match: Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators

  • Boiler Technician
  • Maintenance Technician

  • Operate or maintain stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment to provide utilities for buildings or industrial processes. Operate equipment such as steam engines, generators, motors, turbines, and steam boilers.

  • Activate valves to maintain required amounts of water in boilers, to adjust supplies of combustion air, and to control the flow of fuel into burners.
  • Adjust controls and/or valves on equipment to provide power, and to regulate and set operations of system or industrial processes.
  • Ignite fuel in burners, using torches or flames.
  • Monitor boiler water, chemical, and fuel levels, and make adjustments to maintain required levels.
  • Weigh, measure, and record fuel used.

  • Ignite fuel to activate heating equipment.
  • Maintain production or processing equipment.
  • Measure ingredients or substances to be used in production processes.