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O*NET detailed work activityAdjust equipment controls to regulate flow of water, cleaning solutions, or other liquids
Stays humanHands-on work
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This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Regulate equipment operations and conditions, such as water levels, based on instrument data or from computers.
- Turn valves to pump sterilizing solutions or rinse water through pipes or equipment or to spray vats with atomizers.
- Start pumps and open valves or use automated equipment to regulate the flow of oil in pipelines and into and out of tanks.
- Activate valves to maintain required amounts of water in boilers, to adjust supplies of combustion air, and to control the flow of fuel into burners.
- Calibrate liquid flow devices and meters, including fuel, chemical, and water meters.
- Turn valves to regulate the moisture contents of materials.
- Calibrate liquid flow devices or meters, including fuel, chemical, and water meters.
- Turn valves to regulate flow of liquids or air, to reverse machines, to start pumps, or to regulate equipment.