What You'll Do

  • 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.

Essential Skills

Operations Monitoring 3.88/5
Monitoring 3.5/5
Operation and Control 3.5/5
Reading Comprehension 3.12/5
Active Listening 3.12/5
Speaking 3.12/5
Critical Thinking 3.12/5
Troubleshooting 3.0/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.0/5
Time Management 3.0/5
Writing 2.88/5
Active Learning 2.88/5

Career Fit Overview

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Top passions

  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Analyst: Investigating problems and finding patterns keeps you engaged.

Common styles

Attention to Detail, Independence, Dependability, Cooperation, Analytical Thinking

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Near Vision 3.88/5
Oral Comprehension 3.75/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.75/5
Perceptual Speed 3.75/5
Oral Expression 3.62/5
Control Precision 3.38/5
Written Expression 3.25/5
Information Ordering 3.25/5

Technologies & Tools

Computerized maintenance management system CMMS Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Word Operational databases Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 3.47/5)
  • Independence (High importance: 3.44/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 3.37/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 3.32/5)
  • Analytical Thinking (High importance: 3.09/5)

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How to Become One

Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful but is usually not required. Training is often provided on the job.

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