Dude…This is like no “super soaker” you’ve ever seen!

Diamond Power in Lynchburg is just one of the many local businesses that hire people to do technical work. The company hires people with both two- and four-year college degrees.

Their main work happens to be cleaning the insides of industrial boilers, which are 13-story high boxes filled with burning coal dust, used to produce power for factories.

But don’t get the idea that Diamond Power employees are crawling up into these boilers with mops and wash buckets.

Hardly.

No, Diamond Power designs and builds highly technical, computerized super soakers that can shoot giant streams of water straight through the 50-foot fireballs burning inside these boilers!

These industrial-strength squirt guns — which are actually called hydro jets — move up and down one side of the boiler blasting the opposite side with high-pressure water to blast away all the grimy buildup.

It takes a lot of math and a thorough understanding of thermal dynamics to design systems like these, to build them, and to make them work.

Highly technical work, to be sure. But doesn’t it sound like fun? Other area companies that hire hands-on technical workers include AREVA, B&W, Greif, Sonny’s Automotive, AMTI, English Construction, C.L. Lewis, Southern Air, plus many more.