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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
- 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 “Wash Operator”
- 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.
- Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines, using panelboards, control boards, or semi-automatic equipment.
- Move control settings to make necessary adjustments on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, or yields.
- Monitor recording instruments, flowmeters, panel lights, or other indicators and listen for warning signals, to verify conformity of process conditions.
- Regulate or shut down equipment during emergency situations, as directed by supervisory personnel.
- 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.
- Notify maintenance, stationary-engineering, or other auxiliary personnel to correct equipment malfunctions or to adjust power, steam, water, or air supplies.
- Repair or replace damaged equipment.
- Supervise the cleaning of towers, strainers, or spray tips.
- Turn valves to regulate flow of products or byproducts through agitator tanks, storage drums, or neutralizer tanks.
- Draw samples of products and conduct quality control tests to monitor processing and to ensure that standards are met.
- 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.
- 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.
- Calculate material requirements or yields according to formulas.
Related Technology & Tools
- Heating vessels
- Centrifugal compressors
- Tensometers
- Panel lights
- Belt conveyors
- Display screens
- Cooling towers
- Gas analyzers
- Refrigeration systems
- Industrial dryers
- Positive displacement pumps
- Conveyor feeders
- Digital surface thermometers
- Chain conveyors
- Reciprocating pumps
- Air conditioning systems
- Calibrated rods
- Screw conveyors
- Manometers
- Barometers
- Viscometers
- Soap-spray storage tanks
- Chemical reactor vessels
- Pressure gauges
- Panelboards
- Distillation columns
- Silencers
- Recording calorimeters
- Bucket elevators
- Steam turbines
- Hoppers
- Radiographic detecting instruments
- Centrifugal fans
- Humidifiers
- Centrifugal pumps
- Steam hoses
- Rotary pumps
- Neutralizer tanks
- Axial flow fans
- Desktop computers
- Effluent treatment systems
- Converter vessels
- Thermocouples
- Mixing tanks
- Agitator tanks
- Hydraulic accumulators
- Industrial fans
- Wet scrubbers
- Collectors
- Fire extinguishers
- Control boards
- Boilers
- Blending vessels
- Storage drums
- Reciprocating compressors
- Personal protective equipment
- Bourdon tubes
- Thermocouple temperature probes
- Capacitance probes
- Industrial liquid flowmeters
- Interlock shutdown systems
- Coordinated incident management system CIMS software
- Distributed control system DCS
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Alarm management system software
- Microsoft Office