Chemical Plant and System Operators
ProductionAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Chemical Plant and System Operators with an AI automation risk score of 7%. Analysis includes 19 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Getting Information
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
Required Abilities
- Problem Sensitivity
- Selective Attention
- Near Vision
- Oral Comprehension
- Oral Expression
Key Tasks
Regulate or shut down equipment during emergency situations, as directed by supervisory personnel.
Patrol work areas to ensure that solutions in tanks or troughs are not in danger of overflowing.
Calculate material requirements or yields according to formulas.
Repair or replace damaged equipment.
Monitor recording instruments, flowmeters, panel lights, or other indicators and listen for warning signals to verify conformity of process conditions.
Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines, using panelboards, control boards, or semi-automatic equipment.
Move control settings to make necessary adjustments on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, or yields.
Inspect operating units, such as towers, soap-spray storage tanks, scrubbers, collectors, or driers to ensure that all are functioning and to maintain maximum efficiency.
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data