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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”
- Repair or replace damaged equipment.
- Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines, using panelboards, control boards, or semi-automatic equipment.
- Confer with technical and supervisory personnel to report or resolve conditions affecting safety, efficiency, or product quality.
- Direct workers engaged in operating machinery that regulates the flow of materials and products.
- 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.
- Supervise the cleaning of towers, strainers, or spray tips.
- Gauge tank levels, using calibrated rods.
- Notify maintenance, stationary-engineering, or other auxiliary personnel to correct equipment malfunctions or to adjust power, steam, water, or air supplies.
- Defrost frozen valves, using steam hoses.
- 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.
- Move control settings to make necessary adjustments on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, or yields.
- 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.
- Record operating data, such as process conditions, test results, or instrument readings.
- Calculate material requirements or yields according to formulas.
- Interpret chemical reactions visible through sight glasses or on television monitors and review laboratory test reports for process adjustments.
- Draw samples of products and conduct quality control tests to monitor processing and to ensure that standards are met.
- Monitor recording instruments, flowmeters, panel lights, or other indicators and listen for warning signals, to verify conformity of process conditions.
Related Technology & Tools
- Conveyor feeders
- Neutralizer tanks
- Screw conveyors
- Reciprocating compressors
- Thermocouples
- Converter vessels
- Blending vessels
- Air conditioning systems
- Steam turbines
- Radiographic detecting instruments
- Tensometers
- Capacitance probes
- Bourdon tubes
- Collectors
- Panel lights
- Panelboards
- Gas analyzers
- Boilers
- Axial flow fans
- Agitator tanks
- Centrifugal compressors
- Wet scrubbers
- Chain conveyors
- Centrifugal pumps
- Steam hoses
- Belt conveyors
- Hydraulic accumulators
- Rotary pumps
- Hoppers
- Chemical reactor vessels
- Silencers
- Mixing tanks
- Industrial liquid flowmeters
- Personal protective equipment
- Pressure gauges
- Industrial fans
- Barometers
- Soap-spray storage tanks
- Positive displacement pumps
- Manometers
- Cooling towers
- Viscometers
- Storage drums
- Thermocouple temperature probes
- Display screens
- Distillation columns
- Humidifiers
- Control boards
- Reciprocating pumps
- Heating vessels
- Desktop computers
- Recording calorimeters
- Centrifugal fans
- Effluent treatment systems
- Refrigeration systems
- Industrial dryers
- Fire extinguishers
- Calibrated rods
- Digital surface thermometers
- Bucket elevators
- Distributed control system DCS
- Microsoft Word
- Interlock shutdown systems
- Coordinated incident management system CIMS software
- Microsoft Excel
- Alarm management system software
- Microsoft Office