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O*NET detailed work activityControl pumps or pumping equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
12 jobs21 tasks
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 Operate pumping systems or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 21 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Pump water to clear machinery pipelines.
- Respond to problems by adjusting control room equipment or instructing other personnel to adjust equipment at problem locations or in other control areas.
- Adjust valves and equipment to obtain specified performance.
- Move controls and turn valves to start compressor engines, pumps, and auxiliary equipment.
- Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
- Operate power-driven pumps that transfer liquids, semi-liquids, gases, or powdered materials.
- Start pumps and adjust valves or cables to regulate the flow of products to vessels, using knowledge of loading procedures.
- Operate engines and pumps to shut off wells according to production schedules, and to switch flow of oil into storage tanks.
- Manipulate controls, levers, and valves to start pumps, auxiliary equipment, or conveyors, and to adjust equipment positions, speeds, timing, and material flows.
- Turn valves to increase or decrease water levels in locks.
- Direct or assist workers placing shore anchors and cables, laying additional pipes from dredges to shore, and pumping water from pontoons.
- Turn knobs or switches to regulate pressures.
- Start compressor engines and divert oil from storage tanks into compressor units and auxiliary equipment to recover natural gas from oil.
- Turn valves or handles on equipment to regulate pressure or flow of water, air, steam, or abrasives from sprayer nozzles.
- Operate or maintain off-loading liquid pumps or valves.
- Turn valves or disconnect hoses to eliminate water, cleaning solutions, or vapors from machinery or tanks.
- Open valves to return compressed gas to bottoms of specified wells to repressurize them and force oil to surface.
- Attach hoses and operate pumps to transfer substances to and from liquid cargo tanks.
- Pump two or more materials into one tank to blend mixtures.
- Activate fuel pumps and fill fuel tanks of vehicles with gasoline or diesel fuel to specified levels.