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