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Job Description
Control or operate entire chemical processes or system of machines.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-8091.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 59,430.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 28.00
- Currently, there are 33,300 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Chemical Plant and System Operators”.
Also Known As…
- Chemical Plant and System Operators
- Production Technician
- Process Technician
- Process Operator
- Process Development Associate
- Process Control Operator
- Operator
- Operations Technician
- Machine Operator
- Loader Technician
- Chemical Operator
- Wash Operator
- Utility Operator
- Tower Operator
- Switchboard Operator
- Production Operator
- Pressure Controller
- Plant Associate
- Pharmaceutical Operator
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Machine Operator
- Pharmaceutical Development Technician
- Nitrogen Operator
- Nitric Acid Plant Operator
- Naphtha Washing System Operator
- Hydrogenation Operator
- Furnace Utility Operator
- Furnace Process Plant Operator
- Development Associate
- Denitrator
- Chemical Treatment Plant Technician
- Chemical Plant Operator
- Checker
- Bucket Wash Operator
- Badger Distiller Operator
- Ammonia Technician
- Ammonia Still Operator
Tasks for “Chief Operator”
- Supervise the cleaning of towers, strainers, or spray tips.
- Regulate or shut down equipment during emergency situations, as directed by supervisory personnel.
- Inspect operating units, such as towers, soap-spray storage tanks, scrubbers, collectors, or driers to ensure that all are functioning and to maintain maximum efficiency.
- Notify maintenance, stationary-engineering, or other auxiliary personnel to correct equipment malfunctions or to adjust power, steam, water, or air supplies.
- Interpret chemical reactions visible through sight glasses or on television monitors and review laboratory test reports for process adjustments.
- Gauge tank levels, using calibrated rods.
- Confer with technical and supervisory personnel to report or resolve conditions affecting safety, efficiency, or product quality.
- Move control settings to make necessary adjustments on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, or yields.
- Monitor recording instruments, flowmeters, panel lights, or other indicators and listen for warning signals, to verify conformity of process conditions.
- Repair or replace damaged equipment.
- Record operating data, such as process conditions, test results, or instrument readings.
- Turn valves to regulate flow of products or byproducts through agitator tanks, storage drums, or neutralizer tanks.
- Start pumps to wash and rinse reactor vessels, to exhaust gases or vapors, to regulate the flow of oil, steam, air, or perfume to towers, or to add products to converter or blending vessels.
- Calculate material requirements or yields according to formulas.
- Patrol work areas to ensure that solutions in tanks or troughs are not in danger of overflowing.
- Draw samples of products and conduct quality control tests to monitor processing and to ensure that standards are met.
- Direct workers engaged in operating machinery that regulates the flow of materials and products.
- Defrost frozen valves, using steam hoses.
- Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines, using panelboards, control boards, or semi-automatic equipment.
Related Technology & Tools
- Neutralizer tanks
- Effluent treatment systems
- Panel lights
- Boilers
- Reciprocating compressors
- Conveyor feeders
- Display screens
- Control boards
- Humidifiers
- Centrifugal fans
- Wet scrubbers
- Barometers
- Steam hoses
- Viscometers
- Bourdon tubes
- Recording calorimeters
- Industrial liquid flowmeters
- Blending vessels
- Soap-spray storage tanks
- Centrifugal compressors
- Desktop computers
- Industrial fans
- Radiographic detecting instruments
- Agitator tanks
- Thermocouples
- Cooling towers
- Chemical reactor vessels
- Industrial dryers
- Reciprocating pumps
- Silencers
- Refrigeration systems
- Gas analyzers
- Personal protective equipment
- Heating vessels
- Steam turbines
- Bucket elevators
- Screw conveyors
- Converter vessels
- Calibrated rods
- Capacitance probes
- Panelboards
- Collectors
- Centrifugal pumps
- Fire extinguishers
- Distillation columns
- Air conditioning systems
- Rotary pumps
- Manometers
- Hoppers
- Positive displacement pumps
- Hydraulic accumulators
- Chain conveyors
- Digital surface thermometers
- Mixing tanks
- Storage drums
- Thermocouple temperature probes
- Tensometers
- Pressure gauges
- Axial flow fans
- Belt conveyors
- Microsoft Excel
- Coordinated incident management system CIMS software
- Distributed control system DCS
- Microsoft Word
- Interlock shutdown systems
- Microsoft Office
- Alarm management system software