Biomass Power Plant Managers
Manage operations at biomass power generation facilities. Direct work activities at plant, including supervision of operations and maintenance staff.
Most important skills
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
- Coordination
- Complex Problem Solving
- Judgment and Decision Making
Key knowledge
- Mechanical
- Engineering and Technology
- Production and Processing
- Administration and Management
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Public Safety and Security
- Administrative
- Education and Training
What the work involves
- Manage parts and supply inventories for biomass plants.
- Monitor and operate communications systems, such as mobile radios.
- Supervise operations or maintenance employees in the production of power from biomass, such as wood, coal, paper sludge, or other waste or refuse.
- Review logs, datasheets, or reports to ensure adequate production levels and safe production environments or to identify abnormalities with power production equipment or processes.
- Review biomass operations performance specifications to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Prepare reports on biomass plant operations, status, maintenance, and other information.
- Prepare and manage biomass plant budgets.
- Plan and schedule plant activities, such as wood, waste, or refuse fuel deliveries, ash removal, and regular maintenance.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Conventional, Realistic, Enterprising.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Bachelor's Degree (61.5% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 10 years (40.9%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (23.7%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 4: Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Biomass Power Plant Managers is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
- Projection education uses SOC 11-3051 (detailed_parent); it may describe a broader group.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Moderate | Higher on contact with others than 54% of occupations compared | 57% of surveyed respondents chose “Contact with others most of the time” |
| Dealing with the public | Moderate | Higher on dealing with the public than 57% of occupations compared | 44% of surveyed respondents chose “Very important” |
| Teamwork | Very high | Higher on teamwork than 86% of occupations compared | — |
| Freedom to make decisions | Very high | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 83% of occupations compared | 68% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | High | Higher on time pressure than 72% of occupations compared | 65% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Conflict situations | Moderate | Higher on conflict situations than 58% of occupations compared | — |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Low | Lower on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 62% of occupations compared | 56% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Consequence of error | High | Higher on consequence of error than 73% of occupations compared | 40% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: high
- Conflict situations: moderate
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: low
- Consequence of error: high
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 0%
- Contact with others about half the time: 0%
- Contact with others most of the time: 57.47%
- Constant contact with others: 42.53%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2020
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 14.95%
- Fairly important: 2.09%
- Important: 15.43%
- Very important: 43.52%
- Extremely important: 24.01%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2020
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 0%
- Important: 0%
- Very important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Extremely important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2020
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 14.21%
- Some freedom: 17.75%
- A lot of freedom: 68.04%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2020
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 0.71%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 9.47%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 65.43%
- Every day: 24.38%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2020
Conflict situations
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Once a month or more but not every week: 30.25%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 31.21%
- Every day: 0.74%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2020
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 0.67%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 55.94%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 27.67%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 15.72%
- Every day: 0%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2020
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 5.99%
- Fairly serious: 18.03%
- Serious: 30.53%
- Very serious: 5.24%
- Extremely serious: 40.21%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2020
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