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em1:
I am an-ex 20 year Nuke EM who is considering a career change from Hourly pay as a Distribution System Operator (in the 30's) to an Electrical Maintenance Supervisor at a Nuke Plant (Salary plus bonuses).  Shiftwork is getting old as a DSO, but has anyone had any experiences or observed the job of the Electrical Maintenance Supervisor at a Nuke Plant. I know that you work long hours during outages, but was wondering about the stress during the normal periods.  :D :D :D

alphadude:
you will give time to the company, work when they say you need too-with or with out compensation, work long hours during outages-with or with out compensation-

regular time periods- planning for next outage, day to day employee problems, shift schedules, pm logs- you get rated on how much of a backlog you have, emergent work-if the utility is proactive this is undercontrol-if they run it till it breaks for max profit- its day to day. 

make sure the salary is high enuff so that when the techs make a whole lot more money than you do because of OT- you can deal with it.

the stress level is the same for all line supervisors- don't trip the plant, is this on the schedule, send people to training but get the job done any way etc, build cases on the slugs, and so on...

Joe Ferguson:
As a First Line Supervisor with Exelon (which is the largest nuclear fleet) you will enjoy the following.........

- you can be the 2nd or 3rd supv. of what is supposed to be a 4 man supv. team (they never completely fill the 4th, so right from the start your SOL).
- you will enjoy 10-11 hour days when it's not your Duty Week.
- you will enjoy 11-13 hour days when it is your Duty Week (this IS non-outage)
- you will be given your very own pager almost immediately and they will place you on the ERO roster.  That means atleast 1 week out of the month, you can't be more than an hour from work and you can't have 1-drop of alcohol.
- when it's not your duty week, a buddy will tell you he needs help.  He needs you to cover his week because he has concert tickets.
- you will be handsomely rewarded with about 20 vacation days each year plus the normal holidays ('cept ya can't use all of them cause something important will come up and they are gonna "need you here")
- you will be told about the great bonus structure and incentive programs where you can earn between 11-15% for 'doing good', then you will get about $2300.00 in February followed by the "I wish it could be more...." speech because the company had a tough year.
- your kids won't know ya.
- you and your wife will fight.

Best of luck, man.

Roll Tide:

--- Quote from: rotag on Nov 05, 2007, 01:07 ---As a First Line Supervisor with Exelon (which is the largest nuclear fleet) you will enjoy the following.........

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But to keep it in perspective (even for such a difficult place): it will mean more family time than you had when deployed...

Tag sounds like first-hand experience in a "challenging environment". Most plants aren't quite that tough (but there are shades of it at every plant).

xobxdoc:

--- Quote from: rotag on Nov 05, 2007, 01:07 ---As a First Line Supervisor with Exelon (which is the largest nuclear fleet) you will enjoy the following.........

- you can be the 2nd or 3rd supv. of what is supposed to be a 4 man supv. team (they never completely fill the 4th, so right from the start your SOL).
- you will enjoy 10-11 hour days when it's not your Duty Week.
- you will enjoy 11-13 hour days when it is your Duty Week (this IS non-outage)
- you will be given your very own pager almost immediately and they will place you on the ERO roster.  That means atleast 1 week out of the month, you can't be more than an hour from work and you can't have 1-drop of alcohol.
- when it's not your duty week, a buddy will tell you he needs help.  He needs you to cover his week because he has concert tickets.
- you will be handsomely rewarded with about 20 vacation days each year plus the normal holidays ('cept ya can't use all of them cause something important will come up and they are gonna "need you here")
- you will be told about the great bonus structure and incentive programs where you can earn between 11-15% for 'doing good', then you will get about $2300.00 in February followed by the "I wish it could be more...." speech because the company had a tough year.
- your kids won't know ya.
- you and your wife will fight.

Best of luck, man.



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They don't call it the fleet for nothing!!! It's pretty much the same at Constellation.

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