Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
Receiving, storing, accounting for, and dispensing petroleum products transfers directly to petroleum-transfer and operating-record duties in pump operations.
How to prepare: Seek supervised practice reading flowmeters and gauges and operating pump and valve controls used at civilian petroleum facilities.
What the civilian work involves
- Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary.
- Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.
- Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Operational databases
- Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software