Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setter, Operator, or Tender
Occupation Description Set up, operate, or tend continuous flow or vat‑type equipment; filter presses; shaker screens; centrifuges; condenser tubes; precipitating, fermenting, or evaporating tanks; scrubbing towers; or batch stills. These machines extract, sort, or separate liquids, gases, or solids from other materials to recover a refined product. Includes dairy processing equipment operators.
What Do Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Do On a Daily Basis?
- Monitor material flow or instruments such as temperature or pressure gauges, indicators, or meters to ensure optimal processing conditions.
- Set up or adjust machine controls to regulate conditions such as material flow, temperature, or pressure.
- Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory analysis.
- Assemble fittings, valves, bowls, plates, disks, impeller shafts, or other parts to prepare equipment for operation.
- Operate machines to process materials in compliance with applicable safety, energy, or environmental regulations.
- Measure or weigh materials to be refined, mixed, transferred, stored, or otherwise processed.
Key Skills
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Equivalent or Related Positions
- Digester Cook
- Tank Pumper
- Table Runner
- Hide Puller
- Pulp Mill Operator
Salary Information
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders make between $26,070 and $67,630 a year.
Tools and Software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Data entry software
- Email software
- Word processing software
- SAP
- Spreadsheet software
Information, though believed correct at time of publication, may not be correct, and no warranty is provided.