Gas Plant Operators
Gas plant operators distribute or process gas for utility companies and others by controlling compressors to maintain certain pressures on main pipelines.
Entry level gas plant operator jobs and responsibilities mainly involve monitoring transportation and storage of flammable and other potentially dangerous products to ensure that safety guidelines are followed along with upkeep with equipment functioning, observe temperature, level, and flow gauges, and perform regular unit checks to ensure that all equipment is operating as it should. They are also responsible for controlling the operation of compressors, scrubbers, evaporators, and refrigeration equipment to liquefy, compress, or regasify natural gas, starting and shut down plant equipment and recording, reviewing operations records, test results, and gauge readings such as temperatures, pressures, concentrations, and flows.
A good understanding of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance, knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote the effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions and raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods is essential for this role. Apart from this, gas plant operators must be familiar with circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds, to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures can make a successful career as gas plant operators with gas plant operator salary.
Qualifications
Every career requires an element of study and academic qualification, and there can be several study routes and pathways you can take. In following any academic pathway you will study subjects that contribute to the specialised knowledge required to achieve your career goals. These qualifications provide a future employer with the evidence that you have the desired knowledge, understanding and experience of their industry, so it’s important to consider the various types of qualifications available to you and to understand how they can boost your career and create opportunities for you.
- Certificate Natural Gas Plant Operater
- Diploma Petroleum Engineering
Tasks
- Monitor transportation and storage of flammable and other potentially dangerous products to ensure that safety guidelines are followed.
- Monitor equipment functioning, observe temperature, level, and flow gauges, and perform regular unit checks to ensure that all equipment is operating as it should.
- Control operation of compressors, scrubbers, evaporators, and refrigeration equipment to liquefy, compress, or regasify natural gas.
- Start and shut down plant equipment.
- Record, review, and compile operations records, test results, and gauge readings such as temperatures, pressures, concentrations, and flows.
- Adjust temperature, pressure, vacuum, level, flow rate, or transfer of gas to maintain processes at required levels or to correct problems.
- Clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using hand tools, or request that repair and maintenance work be performed.
- Collaborate with other operators to solve unit problems.
- Determine causes of abnormal pressure variances, and make corrective recommendations, such as installation of pipes to relieve overloading.
- Read logsheets to determine product demand and disposition, or to detect malfunctions.
Progression Routes
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