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6 of 8

Track

Individual contributor

Family rungs priced

P1 · P2 · P3 · P4 · P5 · P6

11-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Serves as the top individual-contributor technical authority for a single power or mining plant's operation and upkeep. At the Principal Professional (P6) level, the role owns organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems, strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future, and drives organization-wide. Recognized authority; multiplies many teams.

What this level does

Expand scope beyond a single plant to a region or entire operations directorate, setting operating and reliability standards across a portfolio of generating facilities.
Define generation operating strategy and field-shaping best practices — standardized emergency response, performance benchmarking, and modernization roadmaps — that raise the reliability and safety ceiling for every plant under the directorate.
Provide full-independence strategic direction on multi-plant capital programs, fleet dispatch strategy, and long-term generation-mix and regulatory positioning.
Influence industry and regulatory direction as a recognized authority, representing the operations organization to utility executives, grid authorities, and industry bodies.
Mentor and set the professional standard for plant managers and senior operations leaders across the region, resolving the most consequential availability, safety, and compliance decisions.

Knowledge applied: Applies field-defining expertise to set operating, reliability, and safety standards across a fleet, region, or operations directorate.
Complexity & problem solving: Provides visionary, field-shaping problem-solving on multi-plant strategy, modernization, and long-term generation and regulatory positioning.
Collaboration & interaction: Influences industry and regulatory direction as a recognized thought leader; mentors plant managers and senior operations leaders.
Typical experience: 15+ years; principal operations authority who has advanced beyond single-plant management to portfolio/directorate leadership.

Skills at this level

Real-Time Generation Control: — Controls and monitors boilers, turbines, generators, and auxiliary equipment to maintain voltage, regulate electricity flows, and distribute output among generators so the plant stays within safe operating limits while meeting dispatch and load requirements.
Distributed Control System Operation: — Operates industrial control software — DCS platforms such as GE Mark VI — to command plant equipment, adjust power flow, and supervise generation from the control room.
Plant Information System Monitoring: — Uses the OSI Plant Information (PI) System and plant data-entry software to record, trend, and analyze operating parameters, identifying developing equipment problems before they force a derate or trip.
Alarm and Emergency Response: — Responds to plant alarms and emergency conditions by isolating equipment and executing established emergency procedures, restoring safe operation or initiating an orderly shutdown.
Plant Equipment Troubleshooting and Repair: — Diagnoses faults in boilers, turbines, generators, and auxiliary systems and troubleshoots and repairs equipment when necessary to restore reliable generation, using hands-on technical competence developed through training and experience.
Preventative Maintenance Direction: — Directs implementation of preventative-maintenance schedules and operational plans, verifying that plant equipment is up to date and performing to government and industry standards.
Regulatory and Safety Compliance: — Ensures plant operation meets safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements, monitoring operations for compliance and representing the facility to regulators and auditors.
Shift and Operations Supervision: — Supervises operators and technicians to keep a steady stream of electricity flowing, directing shift activity and resolving problems while managing plant resources.
Generation Cost and Budget Management: — Ensures the plant meets energy production needs while staying within budget, balancing generation targets against maintenance, fuel, and staffing costs and optimizing heat rate and availability.
Multi-Plant Operations Leadership: — Sets operating, reliability, and safety standards and directs strategy across multiple facilities as scope expands from a single plant to a region or operations directorate.
Grid Dispatch Coordination: — Coordinates plant output with grid dispatch and load requirements, aligning generation to meet system demand and communicating unit status to dispatch and adjacent shifts.

Model-authored from 22 retrieved sources, then adversarially reviewed by an independent judge panel and held to a minimum-evidence floor before publication. Distinct from corpus-extracted content, which is labelled as such.

Pay across the ladder

Power Plant Management — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 11-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+26.2%Industrial Production Managers · United States

185,790 → 234,380 jobs

17,100 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 16,640

Growth — new jobs (3%)Exits — backfill (97%)

3% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +1.9%
Growth share of hiring: 3%
Exit / retention pressure high: 97%
Openings / year: 17,100

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level P6 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$324k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$290k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$269k

Boulder, CO$265k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$265k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$254k

Lexington Park, MD$247k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$246k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $194k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates P6 (P6 — Principal Professional) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems
Autonomy: Defines direction; minimal oversight
Complexity: Strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future
Impact: Organization-wide
Decision rights: Sets technical strategy for a major area
Leadership: Recognized authority; multiplies many teams

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

P6is the top of this family's ladder — progression from here is a lattice move (see adjacent roles below), not a rung.

Performance criteria for this profile render in the assessment kit →

People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Senior Director of Power Plant Operations	jf_power_plant_management::M6	$241,631†	confident0.06
Staff Power Plant Operations Engineer	jf_power_plant_management::P5	$138,423†	confident0.06
Power Plant Director	jf_power_plant_management::M5	$188,371†	confident0.12
Lead Power Plant Operations Specialist	jf_power_plant_management::S5	$60,631†	confident0.12

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 11-3051

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

P6

jf_power_plant_management::P6

Principal Power Plant Engineer

Power Plant Management

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: P
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: plant_operations
Family: power_plant_management
Universal level: 6 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Mining Processing Plant · P6review0.17

Nuclear Power Plant · P6review0.17

Plant Maintenance (Energy/Mining) · P6review0.17

Plant Operations (Energy/Mining) · P6review0.17

Refinery · P6review0.17

Renewables Plant · P6review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 11-3051	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)