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