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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”
- 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.
- Supervise the cleaning of towers, strainers, or spray tips.
- 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.
- Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines, using panelboards, control boards, or semi-automatic equipment.
- Interpret chemical reactions visible through sight glasses or on television monitors and review laboratory test reports for process adjustments.
- 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.
- 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.
- Record operating data, such as process conditions, test results, or instrument readings.
- Repair or replace damaged equipment.
- 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.
- Move control settings to make necessary adjustments on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, or yields.
- Turn valves to regulate flow of products or byproducts through agitator tanks, storage drums, or neutralizer tanks.
- Gauge tank levels, using calibrated rods.
Related Technology & Tools
- Fire extinguishers
- Industrial liquid flowmeters
- Hydraulic accumulators
- Neutralizer tanks
- Refrigeration systems
- Agitator tanks
- Boilers
- Conveyor feeders
- Rotary pumps
- Display screens
- Control boards
- Reciprocating compressors
- Personal protective equipment
- Wet scrubbers
- Positive displacement pumps
- Converter vessels
- Humidifiers
- Steam hoses
- Barometers
- Panel lights
- Capacitance probes
- Chemical reactor vessels
- Tensometers
- Hoppers
- Thermocouple temperature probes
- Manometers
- Industrial dryers
- Effluent treatment systems
- Pressure gauges
- Desktop computers
- Blending vessels
- Viscometers
- Belt conveyors
- Centrifugal compressors
- Axial flow fans
- Bourdon tubes
- Industrial fans
- Centrifugal pumps
- Steam turbines
- Recording calorimeters
- Radiographic detecting instruments
- Air conditioning systems
- Screw conveyors
- Storage drums
- Centrifugal fans
- Reciprocating pumps
- Silencers
- Soap-spray storage tanks
- Digital surface thermometers
- Panelboards
- Distillation columns
- Cooling towers
- Heating vessels
- Gas analyzers
- Chain conveyors
- Mixing tanks
- Thermocouples
- Calibrated rods
- Collectors
- Bucket elevators
- Microsoft Word
- Coordinated incident management system CIMS software
- Distributed control system DCS
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Alarm management system software
- Interlock shutdown systems