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