Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers

• 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.
• Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.
• Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders to determine amounts to be pumped.
• Test materials and solutions, using testing equipment.
• Tend auxiliary equipment such as water treatment and refrigeration units, and heat exchangers.

• Collect and deliver sample solutions for laboratory analysis.
• 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.
• Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools.
• Pump two or more materials into one tank to blend mixtures.
• Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.
• Add chemicals and solutions to tanks to ensure that specifications are met.
• Clean, lubricate, and repair pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment.
• 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.

No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (64%).