Plant Operator Questions
1. For which position you have applied? Shift Engineer, CCR Operator or Plant
Operator?
2. What is your education/experience? Relate to suitability for the position?
3. Mention the plant areas/ systems where you have actually worked?
4. What major operating concerns/problems did you face during your
current/previous assignment?
5. What does a Plant Operator should do to add value/ make reliable the plant
operations?
6. What type of logs you maintain in your plant areas?
7. Do you have any experience of operating plant from PLC display or any other
type of HMI?
8. What type of fuel handling facility do you have at your plant? What are problems
associated with its operation? Gas processing/handling
9. What do you know about gas turbine? What is the difference between gas
turbine and steam turbine? Thermal Cycle etc?
10. What are different sections of gas turbine?
11. What is function of bleed valves?
12. How cooling of different stages of gas turbine are performed?
13. Did you bleed valves and inlet guide vanes?
14. What are the pre-start checks for a gas turbine?
15. What observations you make while taking a walk round of the gas turbine?
16. What are the pre-start checks for the steam turbine?
17. What are the important operations performed on the steam header before starting
a steam turbine?
18. What is gland steam system? How does it work?
19. What is vacuum system? How does it work?
20. How do you change a lube oil filter? What are precautions?
21. How does an HRSG make steam? How does a conventional boiler make
steam?
22. What are the different chemicals used for boiler water/steam chemistry?
23. What are different types of lay ups (boiler preservations)?
24. What are different types of boiler drum level control? Why we use three element
control?
25. How does a cooling tower work? What are the different types of losses in a
cooling tower?
26. How does the cooling tower performance affect the plant performance?
27. What are the chemicals used for injecting in cooling tower water?
28. What are different techniques used to demineralize water?
29. What is working principle of cation, anion and mixed bed? How these are
regenerated?
30. What are operational problems with Demin plants?
31. What are the chemicals used for regeneration?
32. What is the working principle of an RO Plant?
33. What are the operational problems with an RO plant?
34. What are the different chemicals used in RO plant operation? What is their
purpose?
35. How does an electrical generator work? What is an AVR? What is field breaker?
36. What types of outputs are generated by an electrical generator?
37. What type of breaker is used at different voltage levels?
38. What are electrical protections for generator?
39. What is the difference between a power transformer and an auxiliary transformer?
40. What is UPS? Why it is so much important?
41. Why we note the operating hours of air compressors every day?
42. What needs to be considered before staring a large centrifugal pump?
43. Do you have hands on experience of racking out/racking in breakers and applying
earths?
44. What is the interlocking between an earth switch and an isolator?
45. In case of black out what mush be checked on the gas and steam turbines?
46. What type of training did you get regarding fire fighting?
47. What is difference between Hazard and Risk? What are PPEs? What is Near
Miss?
48. What is JSA (A job safety analysis)?
49. What is MSDS? What type of permits you use on your plant? What is Confined
Space? What is Hot Work?
50. What we need to check when we enter the battery room?
51. How will you handle a contractor labor not following rules, using improper PPEs?
52. Is house keeping part of your culture?
53. Manual handling? Working on heights?
54. How do you keep busy yourself in the shift? What is your secret to keep yourself
awake?
55. Are you willing to work as Plant Operator? Why do you want to switch to the
same position of Plant Operator?
56. Do you have aim to go to the next position? What you will do for this? Do you
think you need to work in the Plant Operator position as this suits your nature?
