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