Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers Job Description & Jobs
Job Title: Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
RIASEC Career Code: R-C-I SOC: 53-7072.00
Job Description for:"Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers"
Tend, control, or operate power-driven, stationary, or portable pumps and manifold systems
to transfer gases, oil, other liquids, slurries, or powdered materials to and from various vessels and processes.
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Job Tasks for:
"Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers"
Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools.
Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary.
Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, utilizing knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage.
Pump two or more materials into one tank to blend mixtures.
Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders, in order to determine amounts to be pumped.
Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
Add chemicals and solutions to tanks to ensure that specifications are met.
Clean, lubricate, and repair pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment.
Collect and deliver sample solutions for laboratory analysis.
Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.
Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.
Tend auxiliary equipment such as water treatment and refrigeration units, and heat exchangers.
Tend vessels that store substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials, checking levels of substances by using calibrated rods or by reading mercury gauges and tank charts.
Test materials and solutions, using testing equipment.
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Knowledge Requirements for:
"Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers"
Mechanical -- Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Physics -- Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
Chemistry -- Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
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Skill Requirements for:
"Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers"
Operation and Control -- Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
Operation Monitoring -- Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Equipment Maintenance -- Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
Equipment Selection -- Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Mathematics -- Using mathematics to solve problems.
Ability Requirements for:
"Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers"
Near Vision -- The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Control Precision -- The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
"Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers" Job Activities
Controlling Machines and Processes -- Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
Handling and Moving Objects -- Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings -- Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Job Description for: "Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers"
Mechanical -- Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Physics -- Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
Chemistry -- Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.