Going from maintenance to operations

[Madcow43]

I may have a chance to get into a plant I am very interested in working at as part of the maintenance staff.  My long term goal is to eventually get a SRO license.  Is it very difficult to transition from maintenance to operations?  Also, if I decide I want to stay in maintenance, what is the typical promotion path?

[Fermi2]

1: Yes

2: Worker to Foreman. Then most careers stop.

[S3GLMS]

We covered this in a thread last year, and there were a number of responses about the type of work and what it is like in the maintenance department.  There are a couple of other threads you can search for under maintenance supervisor, use the advanced search screen to add terms like pay and salary.  See the attached thread and check through those responses.

http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,11881.msg67505.html#msg67505