In America a stationary engineer is not a university educated person as the name engineer is usually used. A stationary engineer, to an American, is a blue-collar worker who tends the steam boilers that power and heat a large facility like a hospital, school, factory or office building.
2007-04-30 12:45:31 · 9 answers · asked by Rita K 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Caretaker
2007-04-30 12:54:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a school,probably a caretaker. what I think you called a Janitor (is he now a superintendent? In a larger place like hospital a boilerman In UK at the moment there are very few fully trained Engineers(University) But millions of people calling themselves "Engineers" Anyone who has ever screwed a nut on a bolt thinks he's an engineer. Heating Engineer Sanitary Engineer Central heating Engineer Who know little more than the old odd-job man. Did you have odd-job men In USA :there was usually someone in a small town or community who could fix tap washers,hot water tanks,and blocked drains. Engineer is a high qualification in Germany and France but in England it's meaningless. I've just had in the Telephone Engineer for my internet phone-line and all he did was drill a hole through my bedroom wall and stretch a cable to the nearest telephone pole.
2016-04-01 02:54:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a Stationary Engineer and operated a steam and chill-water plant, and absorption unit, water softeners, compressors, oil pumps, water tower. Some of my duties were to check all the machinery and boilers on a hourly basis, take and test water samples for different chemical solutions, mix different chemicals to be fed into the boilers or the water cooling tower, keep the water softeners at a certain pH by adding bags of rock salt. Check the oil level of the machinery. Change the air filters and static electrical connections to the air filtering units when needed. Make sure the airflow charts were working, test outside air for humidity and barometric pressure and keep records of the readings of all the machinery and charts. Repair all machinery, electrical and plumbing when needed. Just a few of the many duties we done. It is a very technical occupation. Just one of many jobs I have held. Hope this helps in matching a British Title to it.
2007-04-30 15:25:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of times in the US, the title engineer is a part of a job title, even if the occupation does not require a true engineering degree. So even some high tech jobs such as software engineer don't require that one have a degree in computer science. A general term used for what you're describing is often called facilities engineer, custodian, plant manager, etc. They're all fancy names for the same job (with little twists).
2007-04-30 14:41:31 · answer #4 · answered by Phat MD 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about boiler man, don't think we have such a precise term. School caretakers usually do the boiler, maybe a maintenance fitter, but not sure.
2007-04-30 12:52:36 · answer #5 · answered by Knownow't 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Engineman
2007-04-30 13:56:32 · answer #6 · answered by redd headd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the same or was over 100 years ago........an ancestor of mine had occupation of father on birth certificate as stationary engineer.
2007-04-30 13:48:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This might help but I'm not sure if any of these terms is used in Britain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_engineer
2007-04-30 13:46:05 · answer #8 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
manual labourer?
2007-04-30 13:17:44 · answer #9 · answered by . 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋