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O*NET detailed work activityOperate pumping systems or equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
18 jobs24 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, 24 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Open valves or start pumps, agitators, reactors, blowers, or automatic feed of materials.
- Start or stop generators, auxiliary pumping equipment, turbines, or other power plant equipment as necessary.
- Control or maintain auxiliary equipment, such as pumps, fans, compressors, condensers, feedwater heaters, filters, or chlorinators, to supply water, fuel, lubricants, air, or auxiliary power.
- Start pumps to wash and rinse reactor vessels, to exhaust gases or vapors, to regulate the flow of oil, steam, air, or perfume to towers, or to add products to converter or blending vessels.
- Operate or tend stationary engines, boilers, and auxiliary equipment, such as pumps, compressors, or air-conditioning equipment, to supply and maintain steam or heat for buildings, marine vessels, or pneumatic tools.
- Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.
- Start agitators, shakers, conveyors, pumps, or centrifuge machines.
- Tend accessory equipment, such as pumps and conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production processes.
- Tend accessory equipment, such as pumps or conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production processes.
- Operate hydroelectric plant equipment, such as turbines, pumps, valves, gates, fans, electric control boards, or battery banks.
- Control or operate manifold and pumping systems to circulate liquids through a petroleum refinery.
- Operate auxiliary equipment and control multiple processing units during distilling or treating operations, moving controls that regulate valves, pumps, compressors, and auxiliary equipment.
- Operate, control, or monitor equipment, such as acid or gas carbon dioxide removal units, carbon dioxide compressors, or pipelines, to capture, store, or transport carbon dioxide exhaust.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Operate valves, pumps, engines, or generators to control and adjust biofuels production.
- Operate valves, pumps, engines, or generators to control and adjust production of biofuels or biomass-fueled power.
- Turn valves or move controls to admit, drain, separate, filter, clarify, mix, or transfer materials.
- Set temperature and time controls, light ovens, burners, driers, or roasters, and start equipment, such as conveyors, cylinders, blowers, driers, or pumps.
- Set temperature, pressure, and time controls, and start conveyers, machines, or pumps.
- Start machinery, such as pumps, feeders, or conveyors, and turn valves to heat, admit, or transfer products, refrigerants, or mixes.
- Fill processing or cooking containers, such as kettles, rotating cookers, pressure cookers, or vats, with ingredients, by opening valves, by starting pumps or injectors, or by hand.
- Set controls to regulate temperature and length of cycles, and start conveyors, pumps, agitators, and machines.
- Start metering pumps and observe operation of machines and equipment to ensure continuous flow of filaments extruded through spinnerettes and to detect processing defects.
- Clean fabrics, using vacuums or air hoses.
- Start pumps to operate distilling systems that drain and reclaim dry cleaning solvents.