Control or operate an entire chemical process or system of machines.
- Ammonia-Still Operator
- Checker
- Chief Operator
- Naphtha-Washing-System Operator
- Plant Operator, Furnace Process
- Wash Operator
| Prepress Technicians and Workers |
51-5022.00 |
| Water and Liquid Waste Treatment Plant and System Operators |
51-8031.00 |
| Gas Plant Operators |
51-8092.00 |
| Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers |
51-8093.00 |
| Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders |
51-9041.00 |
| Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders |
51-9051.00 |
| Photographic Processing Machine Operators |
51-9132.00 |
| Etchers and Engravers |
51-9194.00 |
| Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers |
53-7072.00 |
| Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders |
53-7121.00 |
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- Calculate material requirements or yields according to formulas.
- Confer with technical and supervisory personnel to report or resolve conditions affecting safety, efficiency, and product quality.
- Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines, using panelboards, control boards, or semi-automatic equipment.
- Defrost frozen valves, using steam hoses.
- Direct workers engaged in operating machinery that regulates the flow of materials and products.
- Draw samples of products, and conduct quality control tests in order to monitor processing, and to ensure that standards are met.
- Gauge tank levels, using calibrated rods.
- Inspect operating units such as towers, soap-spray storage tanks, scrubbers, collectors, and driers to ensure that all are functioning, and to maintain maximum efficiency.
- Interpret chemical reactions visible through sight glasses or on television monitors, and review laboratory test reports for process adjustments.
- Monitor recording instruments, flowmeters, panel lights, and other indicators, and listen for warning signals, in order to verify conformity of process conditions.
- Move control settings to make necessary adjustments on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, and yields.
- Notify maintenance, stationary-engineering, and other auxiliary personnel to correct equipment malfunctions and to adjust power, steam, water, or air supplies.
- Patrol work areas to ensure that solutions in tanks and troughs are not in danger of overflowing.
- Record operating data such as process conditions, test results, and instrument readings.
- Regulate or shut down equipment during emergency situations, as directed by supervisory personnel.
- Repair and replace damaged equipment.
- Start pumps to wash and rinse reactor vessels, to exhaust gases and vapors, to regulate the flow of oil, steam, air, and perfume to towers, and to add products to converter or blending vessels.
- Supervise the cleaning of towers, strainers, and spray tips.
- Turn valves to regulate flow of products or byproducts through agitator tanks, storage drums, or neutralizer tanks.
- adjust production equipment/machinery setup
- analyze test information to determine equipment operating efficiency
- clean equipment or machinery
- collect samples for testing
- compute production, construction, or installation specifications
- confer with engineering, technical or manufacturing personnel
- direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
- inspect machinery or equipment to determine adjustments or repairs needed
- maintain consistent production quality
- maintain or repair industrial or related equipment/machinery
- maintain production or work records
- measure, weigh, or count products or materials
- monitor production machinery/equipment operation to detect problems
- operate chemical processing equipment
- operate power driven pumps
- perform safety inspections in manufacturing or industrial setting
- read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
- test materials or solutions
- use precision measuring tools or equipment
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