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