I guess it's all an opinion but for what RO and SRO does and what the pay is, not worth it to me for most plants payrates. class), then deal with lower pay as an RO. alot of it had to do with not wanting to go thru 1.5 years of craziness for less money (lic. pay, which may have put them above the NLOs overall for the year, I don't know. But some of those ROs that were making less than NLOs were also getting lic. That was in 98, but I bet there are places that still don't pay the ROs and the SROs right, IMHO. (70 hour workweek for some) ROs should have been making quite a bit more per hour than NLOs. class because of loss of OT, even though some of them were studying enough to give them 30 hours of OT at times. And many of those ROs took a signifigant pay cut to get thru lic. and the responsibility went way up, but not the pay. The big picture was lost, ROs are in the fishbowl and required to maintain a lic. I thought it was a little bit of a slap in the face, and it has to do with what CheifRocoScooter is asking. when one of the big-wigs was told about this in a monthly get together, he bumped all ROs to just above what the top NLO was making.
It does take discipline (and an understanding family) to work rotating shifts and not all people are made to be shift workers.Īt brunswick some more senior NLOs were making more per hour than newer ROs. The social aspects of working on a shift, with it's attendant comradare is also a plus. NLOs do work in hot and cold environments and there are dirty jobs but in balance a unique and challenging job. NLOs know alot more about plant operations than they get credit for.Īt Salem (union plant) there are off-shift positions for working in the "fix it now team, outage preps, and other special projects that allow the NLOs to get a broader prospective of plant operation. Over the years I've learned that dropping what I'm doing, paying close attention to what's being said when I'm talking to any NLO, and most importantly doing my level best to act on what's been said, keeps me ahead of the issues and show's the NLOs thier issues are really the plant's issues. For the most part they get to tour the plant looking for abnormal conditions, implement procedures, perform surveillances, think and determine what's important enough to report to the control room staff. The job is one of minimal supervision, NLOs are independant workers. 10% put all they have into the job enjoy it and add huge value, 80% do the job, enjoy it most of the time, and are the bread and butter of any operating shift (eyes and ears of the control room), 10% bad attitudes, think they have all the answers, do the absolute bare minimum, spend most of thier time trying to convince anyone who'll listen "how the man has it out for you", most of us wouldn't want them changing the oil in our cars. The old 10, 80, 10 rule is in effect, on this, as any job. I'm an SRO at Salem, supervising NLOs for the past 20 years.
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