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