Practically in any industry - the most developed and extensive branch of production - thousands of people of various specialties will find use. Including fitters for the repair of technological installations. Let’s find out what this specialist is, what he does at the workplace, where he studies to get work permits.
Features
It is immediately worth noting that Technological plant repair fitter is one of the purely working professions. Such a specialist is engaged in many manipulations with the production infrastructure. The work of the repairman of the main equipment of the enterprise implies:
- disassembly and assembly of equipment;
- diagnostics of individual nodes and children;
- repair of various mechanisms;
- similar manipulations with pipelines and valves;
- maintaining the operability of electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic inputs and outputs.
The level of professional skill of a worker in plumbing is rated - the higher it is, the more experienced and valuable a specialist is. In addition, the rank of a locksmith determines the exact range of work that he will perform. But in most cases, this includes the following work:
- preparation of simple tools for work, if necessary - their manufacture from scratch;
- plumbing of various components;
- marking for subsequent processing;
- washing, cleaning parts;
- greasing;
- drilling holes in flanges;
- work with thread on pipes;
- delivery of work performed under the mark in the act of acceptance.
The only difference is that for a fitter of the 5th category, the task will be much more difficult and more responsible than for a worker who, for example, has 3 categories.
True, a fitter of the 5th category will not refuse to perform a simple task, but no one will entrust a mechanic with a low level of preparation with a difficult task, which can be done by a more qualified master.
Knowledge and skills
To receive a 4 or 5 category, a locksmith must know for sure:
- current organization orders;
- all regulations relating to its industry;
- norms of safe and effective repair work;
- technical specifications for repair, test manipulations with equipment;
- basic requirements of PPR;
- tolerance and landing systems;
- Qualities, roughness parameters;
- methods of cleaning equipment and preparing it for work;
- the device of hoisting mechanisms;
- rules for detecting worn parts, methods for their restoration;
- requirements for static and dynamic balancing of machines;
- norms for checking fixed units and assemblies;
- general technology of equipment operation;
- device, purpose and methods of operation of instrumentation and automation systems;
- operating rules for the equipment used;
- physico-chemical properties of the substances used, raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products;
- personnel actions in emergency situations;
- first aid rules.
Responsibilities
The main duties of a mechanic for the repair of technological installations are:
- disassembly, repair, return to working condition and adjustment of various systems;
- tests of especially complex or critical machines, components and assemblies (independently or in conjunction with other specialists);
- washing and cleaning parts;
- lubrication of working mechanisms;
- thread cutting and dressing at pipe joints;
- removal and installation of back safety and control systems;
- preparation of serviced equipment for examination and its conduct;
- cargo sling (if allowed);
- scraping parts;
- work with pneumatic, electric, hydraulic devices;
- work with shutter, control and safety valves.
At level 2, the locksmith should already be ready to work with particularly complex technological systems, which can be disassembled and repaired only using special mechanisms. He needs to be prepared for manipulations with a tense and even tight fit of technological units.
Common activities at this level are:
- body repair of machines and mechanisms without heat treatment;
- assembly of ventilation ducts;
- repair and inspection of the blowers;
- adjustment, preparation for operation of compressors;
- Bearing insert sizing
- tests of smoke exhausters, screens, granulating equipment and ball mills;
- repair of industrial chemical reactors;
- centrifuge repair.
6th grade specialist Assembles and centers gears in air coolers. If there is a granulator on the site, the locksmith discards its parts, repairs and reassembles the drive head, centers the electric motor and knife support. In drum vacuum filters, you need to be able to change the inserts of the intermediate bearings, repair the faceplates, adjust the distribution heads. And then - put the finished device into operation.
In centrifugal compressors, a mechanic repairs labyrinth seals and balances the rotor. It drives gas engine compressors, regulates and tests. In production, a locksmith also has to repair and test hydraulically utilizing boilers. If the company uses lens seals on pipelines, they must be repaired periodically.
In tubular furnaces, hydraulic or pneumatic tests of coils are carried out from time to time.
Education
Preparation of process equipment repair fitter specialized secondary schools. In the Russian capital, such an education provides 54th College of Communications. Residents of the Volga region will be more likely to act on Faculty of Secondary Education of the National Technological University of Kazan. But for the population of Western Siberia and the Urals it is more logical to submit documents to the industrial and economic college in Omsk. From other centers useful to note:
- College of Industry Technologies and Services in Khabarovsk;
- State College in Orenburg;
- ANO DPO "Integrated Center for Retraining of Personnel" (Moscow);
- ANO DPO “UMTS“ Labor safety ”” (Bryansk);
- diversified center "Phoenix" (Chelyabinsk);
- training center "PromResurs" (Moscow);
- CHOU DPO UTs "Knowledge" (Volgograd);
- Institute of Continuing Education at TSU;
- "StroyBiznesKonsalt" (Krasnoyarsk).
Often, training is carried out at workplaces, and qualifications are then fixed after listening to lectures and passing qualification exams at training centers in many cities or production commissions.
Where does it work?
On average, the income of such a specialist in Russia is from 25 to 40 thousand rubles (depending on the qualification level). Moreover, the maximum bar in individual organizations may be higher than 100 thousand rubles. It is curious that in Moscow the average level of salaries for locksmiths is only 40-46 thousand rubles, the same in Samara and Voronezh. The minimum rate - 25 thousand - is registered in many places in our country.
The leaders (over 40 thousand rubles) also included:
- Ufa
- Krasnoyarsk;
- Vladivostok;
- Rostov-on-Don;
- Permian;
- Ekaterinburg;
- Novosibirsk
- St. Petersburg.
In any city, such a specialist will be most interesting:
- petrochemical enterprises;
- engineering companies;
- thermal and hydraulic power plants;
- chemical synthesis plants;
- metallurgy and metalworking enterprises;
- military-industrial complex;
- large repair shops.
