Description
Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot chemical process equipment and control systems to produce products safely, efficiently, and to specification.
- • Adjust control parameters to optimize reaction rates, quality, and yield.
- • Monitor DCS/HMI, gauges, and alarms to verify process conditions.
- • Operate process units via panelboards, control systems, and semi-automatic equipment.
- • Record operating data and complete batch or shift logs.
- • Communicate with engineers and supervisors on safety, efficiency, and quality issues.
- • Collect samples and perform or coordinate in-process quality tests.
- • Execute startups, shutdowns, changeovers, and emergency procedures.
- • Line up and start pumps, utilities, and feeds for charging, purging, or cleaning.
- • Interpret sight-glass observations and lab results to adjust operations.
- • Patrol units to check levels, leaks, and overflow risks.
- • Create maintenance work requests and coordinate repairs and utilities.
- • Inspect towers, tanks, scrubbers, filters, and dryers for proper operation.
- • Operate valves to control flows through reactors, tanks, and neutralizers.
- • Calculate material charges, additions, and yields using standard formulas.
- • Measure tank levels with gauges or calibrated devices.
- • Perform minor equipment adjustments and preventive maintenance; escalate major issues.
- • Thaw frozen lines or valves using approved methods.
- • Coordinate and verify cleaning of towers, strainers, and spray nozzles.
- • Follow SOPs, LOTO, and EHS policies; maintain housekeeping and 5S.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
