Distribute or process gas for utility companies and others by controlling compressors to maintain specified pressures on main pipelines.
- Fuel Attendant
- Liquefaction-and-Regasification-Plant Operator
- Liquefaction-Plant Operator
- Oxygen-Plant Operator
- Pressure Controller
| Plating and Coating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic |
51-4193.00 |
| Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers |
51-6091.00 |
| Power Plant Operators |
51-8013.00 |
| Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators |
51-8021.00 |
| Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers |
51-8093.00 |
| Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders |
51-9012.00 |
| Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators |
53-7071.00 |
| Wellhead Pumpers |
53-7073.00 |
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- Adjust temperature, pressure, vacuum, level, flow rate, and/or transfer of gas to maintain processes at required levels or to correct problems.
- Calculate gas ratios to detect deviations from specifications, using testing apparatus.
- Change charts in recording meters.
- Clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using hand tools, or request that repair and maintenance work be performed.
- Collaborate with other operators to solve unit problems.
- Contact maintenance crews when necessary.
- Control equipment to regulate flow and pressure of gas to feedlines of boilers, furnaces, and related steam-generating or heating equipment.
- Control fractioning columns, compressors, purifying towers, heat exchangers, and related equipment in order to extract nitrogen and oxygen from air.
- Control operation of compressors, scrubbers, evaporators, and refrigeration equipment in order to liquefy, compress, or regasify natural gas.
- Determine causes of abnormal pressure variances, and make corrective recommendations, such as installation of pipes to relieve overloading.
- Distribute or process gas for utility companies or industrial plants, using panel boards, control boards, and semi-automatic equipment.
- Monitor equipment functioning, observe temperature, level, and flow gauges, and perform regular unit checks, in order to ensure that all equipment is operating as it should.
- Monitor transportation and storage of flammable and other potentially dangerous products to ensure that safety guidelines are followed.
- Operate construction equipment to install and maintain gas distribution systems.
- Read logsheets to determine product demand and disposition, or to detect malfunctions.
- Record, review, and compile operations records, test results, and gauge readings such as temperatures, pressures, concentrations, and flows.
- Signal or direct workers who tend auxiliary equipment.
- Start and shut down plant equipment.
- Test gas, chemicals, and air during processing to assess factors such as purity and moisture content, and to detect quality problems or gas or chemical leaks.
- adjust production equipment/machinery setup
- analyze test information to determine equipment operating efficiency
- clean equipment or machinery
- confer with engineering, technical or manufacturing personnel
- control operation of compressors
- direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
- maintain consistent production quality
- maintain or repair industrial or related equipment/machinery
- maintain production or work records
- monitor production machinery/equipment operation to detect problems
- operate chemical processing equipment
- operate gas, petroleum, or power distribution equipment
- read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
- signal directions or warnings to coworkers
- test materials or solutions
- use hand or power tools
- use laboratory equipment
- use precision measuring tools or equipment
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