Operator

JOB PURPOSE:
Operate or maintain stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment to provide utilities for buildings or industrial processes. Operate equipment, such as steam engines, generators, motors, turbines, and steam boilers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Monitors gauges and flow meters and inspects equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressure are at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary.
2. Records operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.
3. Communicates with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.
4. Tends vessels that store substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials, checking levels of substances by using calibrated rods or by reading mercury gauges and tank charts.
5. Turns valves and starts pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
6. Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, utilizing knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankers.
7. Reads operating schedules or instructions or receives verbal orders, in order to determine amounts to be pumped.
8. Cleans, lubricates, and repairs pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment.
9. Collects and delivers sample solutions for laboratory analysis.
10. Connects hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools.

QHSE:

1. Take reasonable care of your own health and safety and not to put other persons - fellow employees and members of the public - at risk by what you do or don't do in the course of your work.
2. Cooperate with any company efforts to improve health and safety at work.
3. Comply with any reasonable instruction given to you in the interest of health and safety.
4. Not to interfere with or misuse anything that's provided for your health, safety or welfare.
5. Report any accidents, injuries or illnesses you may suffer as a result of doing your work, or any accidents, injuries or illnesses you become aware of that involves a fellow employee or member of the public at your place of work.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

1. Diagnose and repair a wide variety of mechanical, electrical and electronic equipment, systems and machinery, such as valves, motors, pumps and other equipment common to the water works field.
2. Use precision and diagnostic instruments to measure required tolerances of mechanical parts.
3. Analyze problems and take appropriate action to ensure continuous and reliable operation of equipment and systems.
4. Switch from automatic to manual controls and isolate equipment mechanically and electrically to allow for safe inspection and repair work.

QUALIFICATIONS:
College degree preferred. Certifications in any of the following are highly preferred: electrical or plumbing.