Geothermal Production Managers
Manage operations at geothermal power generation facilities. Maintain and monitor geothermal plant equipment for efficient and safe plant operations.
Most important skills
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
- Monitoring
- Coordination
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Active Listening
- Writing
Key knowledge
- Mechanical
- Administration and Management
- Production and Processing
- Public Safety and Security
- Mathematics
- Engineering and Technology
- English Language
- Personnel and Human Resources
What the work involves
- Conduct well field site assessments.
- Select and implement corrosion control or mitigation systems for geothermal plants.
- Communicate geothermal plant conditions to employees.
- Record, review, or maintain daily logs, reports, maintenance, and other records associated with geothermal operations.
- Perform or direct the performance of preventative maintenance on geothermal plant equipment.
- Monitor geothermal operations, using programmable logic controllers.
- Identify opportunities to improve plant electrical equipment, controls, or process control methodologies.
- Identify and evaluate equipment, procedural, or conditional inefficiencies involving geothermal plant systems.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Realistic, Conventional, Enterprising.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Some College Courses (47.6% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 10 years (41.8%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (30.5%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 3: Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Geothermal Production 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 57% of occupations compared | 55% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Moderate | Higher on dealing with the public than 54% of occupations compared | 28% of surveyed respondents chose “Very important” |
| Teamwork | Very high | Higher on teamwork than 86% of occupations compared | 67% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Very high | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 89% of occupations compared | 63% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | High | Higher on time pressure than 75% of occupations compared | 47% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Conflict situations | Very high | Higher on conflict situations than 83% of occupations compared | 50% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Low | Lower on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 63% of occupations compared | 56% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Consequence of error | Very high | Higher on consequence of error than 91% of occupations compared | 68% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: high
- Conflict situations: very high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: low
- Consequence of error: very 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: 7.04%
- Contact with others most of the time: 38.42%
- Constant contact with others: 54.54%
n = 17, Incumbent 07/2011
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 4.08%
- Fairly important: 21.13%
- Important: 19.05%
- Very important: 28.29%
- Extremely important: 27.45%
n = 17, Incumbent 07/2011
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 0%
- Important: 0%
- Very important: 33.13%
- Extremely important: 66.87%
n = 17, Incumbent 07/2011
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 0%
- Some freedom: 36.67%
- A lot of freedom: 63.33%
n = 17, Incumbent 07/2011
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 4.3%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 10.4%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 47.2%
- Every day: 38.11%
n = 17, Incumbent 07/2011
Conflict situations
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 7.04%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 42.51%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 50.45%
- Every day: 0%
n = 17, Incumbent 07/2011
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 55.56%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 32.03%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 12.41%
- Every day: 0%
n = 17, Incumbent 07/2011
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 13.36%
- Fairly serious: 6.32%
- Serious: 4.35%
- Very serious: 8.36%
- Extremely serious: 67.61%
n = 17, Incumbent 07/2011
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