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Power Engineer

Definition: A power engineer is a certified technician who tends to the repair , Maintenance of boiler systems most commonly in the oil and gas industry. However they can also work in Hospitals , schools and any building with massive boiler and other mechanical systems.

Another term used: “Rig Rat”

Known Characteristics: Men and women who do nothing at work besides talk about Danger Kats and sledding. Once in awhile they look at a computer panel. Yet they always talk about how much work they put in compared to other professions. They also feel personally attacked by a 16 year old girl who protests for environmental change. The Power Engineers way of arguing there side of environmental debates are by “rolling coal” as they would call it. But understand as much as these men and women may piss you off, they are necessary in order to keep society running.

NOTE: Few are respectable and smart citizens ! Not many but they are out there.
After a 10 year career in the patch, Power Engineer Mike had to shut off his Netflix and fix an actual boiler.

Man is that Power Engineer Sarah ever an asshole, but we gotta pay someone to watch the plant !

Although there attitudes are not always the best, thank the lord for Power Engineers!
Power Engineer by Alberta Proud October 8, 2019

female power engineer 

A women with the body o a rock hard goddess who is highly intelligent and works as hard as her counterpart, a prime specimen of the female human. Able to open a beer just by looking at it.
"look at that goddess, how did she open that beer." Oh you mean that female Power Engineer.

senior engineer power trip 

when a person gets promoted to senior engineer and decides it is time to pick on regular engineers because he finally got a step up on them. this is usually the result of feeling inadequate, typically because the regular engineers went to better colleges than the senior engineer did
Dude, Alex is pulling a senior engineer power trip on Colin.
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