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