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Market evidence report — nuclear-reactor-operator
Source: 43 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 43), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-18. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 30 | 70 % |
| n/a | 5 | 12 % |
| junior | 4 | 9 % |
| senior | 3 | 7 % |
| lead | 1 | 2 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reactor operation | 15 | 35 % |
| 2 | electrical switching | 10 | 23 % |
| 3 | plant operation | 10 | 23 % |
| 4 | clearance activities | 8 | 19 % |
| 5 | radwaste management | 8 | 19 % |
| 6 | emergency response | 7 | 16 % |
| 7 | reactor monitoring | 7 | 16 % |
| 8 | system monitoring | 6 | 14 % |
| 9 | control room operations | 5 | 12 % |
| 10 | nuclear power plant operation | 5 | 12 % |
| 11 | equipment operation | 4 | 9 % |
| 12 | alarm response | 3 | 7 % |
| 13 | outage support | 3 | 7 % |
| 14 | procedure review | 3 | 7 % |
| 15 | radiation protection | 3 | 7 % |
| 16 | shift supervision | 3 | 7 % |
| 17 | system operation | 3 | 7 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire brigade training | 6 | 14 % |
| 2 | on-the-job training | 5 | 12 % |
| 3 | classroom training | 3 | 7 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | log maintenance | 11 | 26 % |
| 2 | plant operation | 10 | 23 % |
| 3 | reactor monitoring | 8 | 19 % |
| 4 | emergency response | 7 | 16 % |
| 5 | shift coordination | 6 | 14 % |
| 6 | condition notification | 4 | 9 % |
| 7 | equipment operation | 3 | 7 % |
| 8 | license training completion | 3 | 7 % |
| 9 | licensed activity oversight | 3 | 7 % |
| 10 | operations shift supervision | 3 | 7 % |
| 11 | reactor operator supervision | 3 | 7 % |
| 12 | work coordination | 3 | 7 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 43 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
43 ads.
Top hard skills:
- reactor operation — 35 % (15 ads)
- electrical switching — 23 % (10 ads)
- plant operation — 23 % (10 ads)
- clearance activities — 19 % (8 ads)
- radwaste management — 19 % (8 ads)
- emergency response — 16 % (7 ads)
- reactor monitoring — 16 % (7 ads)
- system monitoring — 14 % (6 ads)
- control room operations — 12 % (5 ads)
- nuclear power plant operation — 12 % (5 ads)
Top tools:
- Plant Operator Selection System (POSS) — 5 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 70 % · n/a 12 % · junior 9 % · senior 7 % · lead 2 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Nuclear Reactor Operator | 7 |
| Senior Reactor Operator | 5 |
| Reactor Operator | 3 |
| Senior Reactor Operator In Training | 3 |
| Nuclear Power Reactor Operator | 2 |
| Aspiring Senior Reactor Operator — In Training | 1 |
| Aspiring Senior Reactor Operator — Nuclear Plant Leader | 1 |
| Lead Nuclear Reactor Operator - Plant Operations Leader | 1 |
| Nuclear Equipment Operator | 1 |
| Nuclear Operations Technician | 1 |
| Nuclear Operations Technician I or Nuclear Operations Technician II - BOT Bypass - Harris Nuclear Plant | 1 |
| Nuclear Operations Technician I or Nuclear Operations Technician II - Catawba Nuclear Station | 1 |
| Nuclear Operations Technician I/II — RO/SRO Career Path | 1 |
| Nuclear Plant Operations Technician – Safe, Power | 1 |
| Nuclear Plant Operations Technician – Safe, Reliable Power | 1 |
| Nuclear Plant Operator: Reactor & Fuel Fabrication | 1 |
| Nuclear Reactor Operator - In Training for SRO License | 1 |
| Nuclear Reactor Operator - Military Veterans | 1 |
| Nuclear Reactor Operator - Now Hiring | 1 |
| Nuclear Reactor Operator: License Path & Plant Ops | 1 |
| Nuclear Reactor Technician I or Nuclear Reactor Technician II - Catawba Nuclear Station | 1 |
| Plant Control Operator In Training (PCOIT) - Reactor Operator | 1 |
| Reactor Operator - License Class | 1 |
| Reactor Operator Candidate | 1 |
| RO License Operator 1 - LOT Class | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.