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