Description
Operate and control stationary and portable pumps and manifold systems to transfer, blend, and condition industrial chemicals between storage tanks, reactors, processing units, and transport vessels, ensuring safe, compliant handling of hazardous materials.
- • Monitor gauges, flowmeters, level indicators, temperatures, pressures, and chemical concentrations; report deviations.
- • Record operating data such as batches and quantities pumped, lot numbers, tank levels, and operating times.
- • Communicate with control room, lab, and field crews via radio or signals to start or stop transfers.
- • Inspect and tend chemical storage vessels and reactors; verify levels using calibrated rods, sight glasses, or tank charts.
- • Start, stop, and throttle pumps and open or close valves to control chemical flow rates per procedures.
- • Plan routing of chemicals through pipelines, manifolds, and tankage based on compatibility and capacities.
- • Read batch sheets, loading orders, or SOPs to determine chemicals and amounts to be pumped.
- • Clean, lubricate, and perform minor repairs on pumps, seals, strainers, and hoses; escalate major issues.
- • Collect process and tank samples and deliver to the QA/QC lab, following PPE and chain-of-custody requirements.
- • Connect and secure hoses and loading arms to tanks, railcars, and tank trucks; verify fittings, gaskets, grounding, and bonding.
- • Operate auxiliary systems such as scrubbers, neutralization units, cooling/heating loops, and heat exchangers.
- • Add reagents, inhibitors, solvents, or neutralizers to tanks to meet specifications.
- • Blend chemical batches by pumping multiple components into one vessel and recirculating to uniformity.
- • Test solutions for pH, specific gravity, conductivity, or concentration using field test kits and analyzers; adjust as needed.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
