Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers

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.

Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.

Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.

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.

Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.

Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage.

Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders to determine amounts to be pumped.

Clean, lubricate, and repair pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment.

Collect and deliver sample solutions for laboratory analysis.

Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools.

Tend auxiliary equipment such as water treatment and refrigeration units, and heat exchangers.

Add chemicals and solutions to tanks to ensure that specifications are met.

Pump two or more materials into one tank to blend mixtures.

Test materials and solutions, using testing equipment.