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Job Description
Calculate, measure, load, mix, and process refined feedstock with additives in fermentation or reaction process vessels and monitor production process. Perform, and keep records of, plant maintenance, repairs, and safety inspections.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-8099.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Biofuels Processing Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Biofuels Processing Technicians
- Production Operator
- Process Technician
- Process Operator
- Operator
- Mash Preparatory Operator
- Kettle Operator
- Ethanol Operator
- Chemical Operator
- Board Operator
- Biofuels Processing Technician
- Biomass Plant Technician
- Biofuels Production Technician
- Biofuels Production Associate
- Biodiesel Production Technician
- Biodiesel Production Associate
- Biodiesel Process Control Technician
Tasks for “Biodiesel Processing Technician”
- Assess the quality of biofuels additives for reprocessing.
- Clean biofuels processing work area, ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
- Preprocess feedstock in preparation for physical, chemical, or biological fuel production processes.
- Monitor batch, continuous flow, or hybrid biofuels production processes.
- Process refined feedstock with additives in fermentation or reaction process vessels.
- Perform routine maintenance on mechanical, electrical, or electronic equipment or instruments used in the processing of biofuels.
- Operate chemical processing equipment for the production of biofuels.
- Monitor and record flow meter performance.
- Operate valves, pumps, engines, or generators to control and adjust biofuels production.
- Collect biofuels samples and perform routine laboratory tests or analyses to assess biofuels quality.
- Measure and monitor raw biofuels feedstock.
- Inspect biofuels plant or processing equipment regularly, recording or reporting damage and mechanical problems.
- Calculate, measure, load, or mix refined feedstock used in biofuels production.
- Monitor and record biofuels processing data.
- Coordinate raw product sourcing or collection.
- Rebuild, repair, or replace biofuels processing equipment components.
- Operate equipment, such as a centrifuge, to extract biofuels products and secondary by-products or reusable fractions.
- Monitor stored biofuels products or secondary by-products until reused or transferred to users.
- Calibrate liquid flow devices and meters including fuel, chemical, and water meters.
Related Technology & Tools
- Digital hydrometers
- Desktop computers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Flow transmitters
- Portable refractometers
- Sample ports
- Safety gloves
- Benchtop centrifuges
- Stripper columns
- Personal computers
- Methanators
- Materials dryers
- High vacuum evaporation systems
- Flow control valves FCV
- Autotitrators
- Belt conveyor systems
- Moisture analyzers
- Demineralizers
- pH probes
- Chain hoists
- Titrators
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Skid steer loaders
- Gravity convection ovens
- Belt filters
- Reverse osmosis equipment
- Adjustable hand wrenches
- Fermentation processing vessels
- Vacuum systems
- Sifting screens
- Stop valves
- Gas chromatographs GC
- Mole sieves
- High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
- Temperature sensors
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Hand sampling pumps
- Viscosity meters
- Self-contained breathing apparatus
- Cooling towers
- Infrared temperature guns
- Distillation columns
- Emergency alarm systems
- Pallet jacks
- Dust and particulate respirators
- Mobile radios
- Fall protection harnesses
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Crusher screens
- Pneumatic conveyor systems
- Reaction flasks
- Ball valves
- Air monitoring equipment
- Emissions monitoring systems
- Forklifts
- Protective ear plugs
- Water samplers
- Milling equipment
- Heat exchangers
- Wheeled front end loaders
- Static mixers
- Steam boilers
- Level transmitters
- Throttle control valves TCV
- Pressure gauges
- Air compressors
- Gate butterfly valves
- Halogen moisture balances
- Hazardous material spill kits
- Agitators
- Glass graduated cylinders
- Electric timing devices
- Microsoft Word
- Human machine interface HMI software
- Microsoft Excel
- Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
- Digital control systems DCS
- Inventory control software