Job requirements Generating Station Operator - Electrical Power Systems in Canada

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Employment requirements

This is what you typically need for the job.

• Trade certification is available, but voluntary for power engineers in Nova Scotia.
• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Control room operators at nuclear power plants require licensing from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
• Power systems operators require completion of a three- to five-year power system operator apprenticeship program or over three years of work experience in the trade and some college or industry courses in electrical and electronic technology.
• Power engineers require a provincial or territorial power engineering certificate according to class. There are five classes in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia while there are four classes in Newfoundland/Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut territories.
• Trade certification is available, but voluntary for power systems operators in Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Power engineers require a college training program in power engineering and several years of work experience. An exam is mandatory to move from one class to the other.

Source National Occupational Classification