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Career Details :: Petroleum Refinery and Control Panel Operators
Description
Analyze specifications and control continuous operation of petroleum refining and processing units. Operate control panel to regulate temperature, pressure, rate of flow, and tank level in petroleum refining unit, according to process schedules.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Cleans interior of processing units by circulating chemicals and solvents within unit.
- Operates control panel to coordinate and regulate process variables and to direct product flow rate, according to prescribed schedules.
- Repairs, lubricates, and maintains equipment or reports malfunctioning equipment to supervisor to schedule needed repairs.
- Monitors and adjusts unit controls to ensure safe and efficient operating conditions.
- Inspects equipment and listens for automated warning signals to determine location and nature of malfunction, such as leaks and breakage.
- Reads and analyzes specifications, schedules, logs, and test results to determine changes to equipment controls required to produce specified product.
- Compiles and records operating data, instrument readings, documents, and results of laboratory analyses.
- Samples and tests liquids and gases for chemical characteristics and color of products, or sends products to laboratory for analysis.
- Operates auxiliary equipment and controls multiple processing units during distilling or treating operations.
- Observes instruments, gauges, and meters to verify conformance to specified quality and quantity of product.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
Important Skills
- Operation Monitoring
- Operation and Control
- Product Inspection
- Equipment Maintenance
- Reading Comprehension
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Aware of New Events
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