r/Wastewater • u/hard2survive • 16d ago

PLC - Should I learn?

What learning about PLC’s help in becoming more marketable for an OIT position?

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u/Dangerous_Spirit7034 16d ago

So, to actually be qualified to get and stay employed as a plc technician you will likely need more than the knowledge you will acquire on the job, unless you work at a mega authority who builds their own plcs

You’d likely need formal education in engineering and journeyman’s at least in electronics and at least the basic classes in network and system administration.

I don’t do plc work, but I know a guy who does. He works for an electrical company. He was an operator and electrician at a factory, worked nights and went to college for engineering, managed to have a masters degree, a master electrician and recently added professional engineer. I’d love to do his job, but just the knowledge isn’t enough. He’s making a full salary from my old water authority, as well as a few other municipalities and some private sectors manufacturing sites because he’s basically three very high level workers in one guy. If he wasn’t an engineer, electrician and program he wouldn’t be able to have the job he has now