Gas Plant Operators

<ul><li>Monitor transportation and storage of flammable and other potentially dangerous products to ensure that safety guidelines are followed.</li><li>Monitor equipment functioning, observe temperature, level, and flow gauges, and perform regular unit checks to ensure that all equipment is operating as it should.</li><li>Control operation of compressors, scrubbers, evaporators, and refrigeration equipment to liquefy, compress, or regasify natural gas.</li><li>Start and shut down plant equipment.</li><li>Record, review, and compile operations records, test results, and gauge readings such as temperatures, pressures, concentrations, and flows.</li><li>Adjust temperature, pressure, vacuum, level, flow rate, or transfer of gas to maintain processes at required levels or to correct problems.</li><li>Clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using hand tools, or request that repair and maintenance work be performed.</li><li>Collaborate with other operators to solve unit problems.</li><li>Determine causes of abnormal pressure variances, and make corrective recommendations, such as installation of pipes to relieve overloading.</li><li>Read logsheets to determine product demand and disposition, or to detect malfunctions.</li><li>Test gas, chemicals, and air during processing to assess factors such as purity and moisture content, and to detect quality problems or gas or chemical leaks.</li><li>Contact maintenance crews when necessary.</li><li>Change charts in recording meters.</li></ul>