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