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