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Scenario · Control Room Operations

Complete the field operator round and operational checks

You are the Field Operator on panel B, day shift.

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The situation

What has happened

It is 6:00 am on a weekday at Newport West. Both gas turbines are at 200 megawatts and the steam turbine at 130 megawatts. The unit controller has asked you to complete the morning round: operational checks on in-service mechanical and electrical plant, lubrication checks on the feed pumps and cooling tower fans, and a walk of the chemical store and water treatment plant. Last week's round found a noisy gearbox on cooling tower fan CT-3, which is now isolated, and the ammonia day tank overfilled on 6 September. The controller wants every reading recorded in the Operations Log and any defect raised as a work order before the 8:00 am meeting.

Your brief. Carry out the round using the operational check lists, record readings and observations in the Operations Log, raise a work order for any defect you find, and report to the unit controller in the form a controller needs.
Tasks

Deliverables

  • Operations Log entries for the round
  • New work order for the defect
  • Round report to the unit controller

Documents to use

Systems to use

Operations Log

The control room's chronological record of plant events, starts, shutdowns, alarms, operational checks, readings and instructions across all three sites.

Maintenance Work Orders and Defects

Holds every defect raised and every planned and corrective maintenance work order across the three sites with priority, crew and completion records.

Permit and Isolation Register

Records every permit to work and its isolations from request through issue, work, restoration and close out.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Electricity Supply Industry - Generation Sector Training Package as at 10 September 2026.

UEPOPS014Conduct operational checks on in-service mechanical plant
UEPOPS004Carry out operational checks on in-service electrical plant
UEPOPS121Perform plant lubrication
UEPOPS122Perform process plant inspections
UEPOPS045Maintain and utilise records

Qualifications

UEP20122Certificate II in ESI Generation - Operations Support
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Look for a round that covers the plant areas in a logical order, log entries with plant tags, units and times, recognition that isolated plant must not be operated, a work order with a description a fitter could act on, and a report in the order a controller needs: status, abnormal readings, actions taken. The student must know what a lubrication check looks for.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.