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