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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”
- 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.
- Repair or replace damaged equipment.
- Notify maintenance, stationary-engineering, or other auxiliary personnel to correct equipment malfunctions or to adjust power, steam, water, or air supplies.
- Regulate or shut down equipment during emergency situations, as directed by supervisory personnel.
- Draw samples of products and conduct quality control tests to monitor processing and to ensure that standards are met.
- 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.
- Direct workers engaged in operating machinery that regulates the flow of materials and products.
- Monitor recording instruments, flowmeters, panel lights, or other indicators and listen for warning signals, to verify conformity of process conditions.
- Record operating data, such as process conditions, test results, or instrument readings.
- 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.
- Turn valves to regulate flow of products or byproducts through agitator tanks, storage drums, or neutralizer tanks.
- Interpret chemical reactions visible through sight glasses or on television monitors and review laboratory test reports for process adjustments.
- Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines, using panelboards, control boards, or semi-automatic equipment.
- Defrost frozen valves, using steam hoses.
- Supervise the cleaning of towers, strainers, or spray tips.
- Patrol work areas to ensure that solutions in tanks or troughs are not in danger of overflowing.
Related Technology & Tools
- Control boards
- Viscometers
- Manometers
- Calibrated rods
- Bucket elevators
- Conveyor feeders
- Humidifiers
- Distillation columns
- Storage drums
- Wet scrubbers
- Air conditioning systems
- Tensometers
- Mixing tanks
- Industrial fans
- Panelboards
- Converter vessels
- Refrigeration systems
- Screw conveyors
- Belt conveyors
- Agitator tanks
- Steam hoses
- Axial flow fans
- Boilers
- Chain conveyors
- Silencers
- Rotary pumps
- Gas analyzers
- Steam turbines
- Heating vessels
- Neutralizer tanks
- Effluent treatment systems
- Industrial dryers
- Barometers
- Hoppers
- Industrial liquid flowmeters
- Centrifugal pumps
- Hydraulic accumulators
- Digital surface thermometers
- Pressure gauges
- Panel lights
- Thermocouple temperature probes
- Cooling towers
- Chemical reactor vessels
- Capacitance probes
- Soap-spray storage tanks
- Thermocouples
- Bourdon tubes
- Centrifugal fans
- Blending vessels
- Desktop computers
- Personal protective equipment
- Centrifugal compressors
- Display screens
- Collectors
- Fire extinguishers
- Reciprocating compressors
- Radiographic detecting instruments
- Positive displacement pumps
- Recording calorimeters
- Reciprocating pumps
- Microsoft Excel
- Distributed control system DCS
- Coordinated incident management system CIMS software
- Alarm management system software
- Microsoft Word
- Interlock shutdown systems
- Microsoft Office