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Market evidence report — steam-turbine-operator
Source: 30 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 30), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-20. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 24 | 80 % |
| n/a | 5 | 17 % |
| senior | 1 | 3 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 9 | 30 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Word | 8 | 27 % |
| 3 | DCS | 5 | 17 % |
| 4 | PLC | 5 | 17 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boiler operation | 24 | 80 % |
| 2 | water treatment | 9 | 30 % |
| 3 | steam turbine operation | 8 | 27 % |
| 4 | mechanical troubleshooting | 6 | 20 % |
| 5 | turbine operation | 6 | 20 % |
| 6 | equipment troubleshooting | 5 | 17 % |
| 7 | combustion control | 4 | 13 % |
| 8 | equipment maintenance | 4 | 13 % |
| 9 | blueprint reading | 3 | 10 % |
| 10 | equipment monitoring | 3 | 10 % |
| 11 | plant maintenance | 3 | 10 % |
| 12 | preventative maintenance | 3 | 10 % |
| 13 | preventive maintenance | 3 | 10 % |
| 14 | process control | 3 | 10 % |
| 15 | safety compliance | 3 | 10 % |
| 16 | steam boiler operation | 3 | 10 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equipment maintenance | 8 | 27 % |
| 2 | plant operation | 5 | 17 % |
| 3 | system operation | 5 | 17 % |
| 4 | equipment inspection | 4 | 13 % |
| 5 | equipment operation | 4 | 13 % |
| 6 | shift log maintenance | 4 | 13 % |
| 7 | system monitoring | 4 | 13 % |
| 8 | water testing | 4 | 13 % |
| 9 | boiler operation | 3 | 10 % |
| 10 | data recording | 3 | 10 % |
| 11 | equipment monitoring | 3 | 10 % |
| 12 | inspection | 3 | 10 % |
| 13 | log maintenance | 3 | 10 % |
| 14 | procedure creation | 3 | 10 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 30 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
30 ads.
Top hard skills:
- boiler operation — 80 % (24 ads)
- water treatment — 30 % (9 ads)
- steam turbine operation — 27 % (8 ads)
- mechanical troubleshooting — 20 % (6 ads)
- turbine operation — 20 % (6 ads)
- equipment troubleshooting — 17 % (5 ads)
- combustion control — 13 % (4 ads)
- equipment maintenance — 13 % (4 ads)
- blueprint reading — 10 % (3 ads)
- equipment monitoring — 10 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- Microsoft Excel — 30 % (9 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 27 % (8 ads)
- DCS — 17 % (5 ads)
- PLC — 17 % (5 ads)
- Microsoft Outlook — 7 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 80 % · n/a 17 % · senior 3 %
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 |
|---|---|
| Boiler Operator | 3 |
| Boiler & Steam Turbine Plant Operator (MN 1A License) - Ethanol Plant | 2 |
| Blue Seal Boiler Operator (2nd/3rd Shift) | 1 |
| Boiler & Steam Turbine Operator | 1 |
| Boiler & Steam Turbine Plant Operator | 1 |
| Boiler & Steam Turbine Plant Operator (MN 1A License) | 1 |
| Boiler & Steam Turbine Plant Operator (MN 1A License) in Benson | 1 |
| Boiler & Turbine Operator – 3-Shift Power Plant | 1 |
| Boiler Operator - High Pressure | 1 |
| Boiler Operator - Weekend Day Shift | 1 |
| Boiler Operator- MD Grade 1 (Eligible for $2,500 Sign-On Bonus) | 1 |
| Boiler Plant Operator. | 1 |
| CRO Control Room Operator | 1 |
| DSHS FTAA Stationary Engineer 2 | 1 |
| Engineer - First Operator (Boiler Operator) | 1 |
| High-Pressure Boiler & Turbine Operator | 1 |
| On-Site Industrial Boiler Operator - Steam & Maintenance | 1 |
| Power Plant Boiler & Turbine Operator; Swing Shift | 1 |
| Power Plant Operations Technician in , United States | 1 |
| Power Plant Operator | 1 |
| Power Plant Operator – Turbine & Boiler (Night Shift) | 1 |
| Power Plant Operator I: Steam, Turbines & Critical Power | 1 |
| Power Plant Operator: Turbines & HRSGs Expert | 1 |
| Senior Boiler & Steam Turbine Operator; MN Chief | 1 |
| T-Combined Cycle Operator II | 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.