Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Set up or adjust machine controls to regulate conditions such as material flow, temperature, or pressure.
• Monitor material flow or instruments, such as temperature or pressure gauges, indicators, or meters, to ensure optimal processing conditions.
• Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory analysis.
• Clean or sterilize tanks, screens, inflow pipes, production areas, or equipment, using hoses, brushes, scrapers, or chemical solutions.
• Inspect machines or equipment for hazards, operating efficiency, malfunctions, wear, or leaks.
• Dump, pour, or load specified amounts of refined or unrefined materials into equipment or containers for further processing or storage.
• Communicate processing instructions to other workers.
• Remove clogs, defects, or impurities from machines, tanks, conveyors, screens, or other processing equipment.
• Turn valves to pump sterilizing solutions or rinse water through pipes or equipment or to spray vats with atomizers.
• Operate machines to process materials in compliance with applicable safety, energy, or environmental regulations.
• Turn valves or move controls to admit, drain, separate, filter, clarify, mix, or transfer materials.
• Examine samples to verify qualities such as clarity, cleanliness, consistency, dryness, or texture.
• Start agitators, shakers, conveyors, pumps, or centrifuge machines.
• Maintain logs of instrument readings, test results, or shift production for entry in computer databases.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Test samples to determine viscosity, acidity, specific gravity, or degree of concentration, using test equipment such as viscometers, pH meters, or hydrometers.
• Measure or weigh materials to be refined, mixed, transferred, stored, or otherwise processed.
• Connect pipes between vats and processing equipment.
• Install, maintain, or repair hoses, pumps, filters, or screens to maintain processing equipment, using hand tools.
• Remove full containers from discharge outlets and replace them with empty containers.
• Assemble fittings, valves, bowls, plates, disks, impeller shafts, or other parts to prepare equipment for operation.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)