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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
- Process 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 Technician
- 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
- 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 “Production Technician”
- Gauge tank levels, using calibrated rods.
- 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.
- 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.
- Calculate material requirements or yields according to formulas.
- Supervise the cleaning of towers, strainers, or spray tips.
- Move control settings to make necessary adjustments on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, or yields.
- Interpret chemical reactions visible through sight glasses or on television monitors and review laboratory test reports for process adjustments.
- Repair or replace damaged equipment.
- Direct workers engaged in operating machinery that regulates the flow of materials and products.
- 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.
- Defrost frozen valves, using steam hoses.
- Notify maintenance, stationary-engineering, or other auxiliary personnel to correct equipment malfunctions or to adjust power, steam, water, or air supplies.
- 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.
- Turn valves to regulate flow of products or byproducts through agitator tanks, storage drums, or neutralizer tanks.
- Confer with technical and supervisory personnel to report or resolve conditions affecting safety, efficiency, or product quality.
- Draw samples of products and conduct quality control tests to monitor processing and to ensure that standards are met.
Related Technology & Tools
- Agitator tanks
- Blending vessels
- Chemical reactor vessels
- Steam turbines
- Positive displacement pumps
- Converter vessels
- Neutralizer tanks
- Belt conveyors
- Centrifugal pumps
- Distillation columns
- Centrifugal fans
- Hydraulic accumulators
- Reciprocating pumps
- Boilers
- Calibrated rods
- Air conditioning systems
- Panel lights
- Effluent treatment systems
- Chain conveyors
- Thermocouples
- Radiographic detecting instruments
- Barometers
- Steam hoses
- Viscometers
- Mixing tanks
- Screw conveyors
- Bourdon tubes
- Tensometers
- Heating vessels
- Personal protective equipment
- Manometers
- Pressure gauges
- Thermocouple temperature probes
- Refrigeration systems
- Panelboards
- Industrial liquid flowmeters
- Reciprocating compressors
- Wet scrubbers
- Digital surface thermometers
- Centrifugal compressors
- Conveyor feeders
- Collectors
- Desktop computers
- Rotary pumps
- Recording calorimeters
- Fire extinguishers
- Axial flow fans
- Bucket elevators
- Storage drums
- Cooling towers
- Industrial fans
- Display screens
- Industrial dryers
- Hoppers
- Humidifiers
- Capacitance probes
- Silencers
- Soap-spray storage tanks
- Gas analyzers
- Control boards
- Microsoft Excel
- Interlock shutdown systems
- Microsoft Word
- Coordinated incident management system CIMS software
- Microsoft Office
- Alarm management system software
- Distributed control system DCS