Tend, control, or operate power-driven, stationary, or portable pumps and manifold systems to transfer gases, oil, other liquids, slurries, or powdered materials to and from various vessels and processes.

Other names for Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers: Acid Loader, Acid Pump Operator, Airveyor Operator, Blend Plant Operator, Blend Technician, Boom Pump Operator, Booster Station Operator, Brewery Pumper, Brine Well Operator, Cable Maintainer, Caustic Pump Operator, Chemical Operator, Chemical Pumper, Day Light Relief Operator, Engineer, Station, Mainline, Exhauster Engineer, Fermenting Cellars Receiver, Filter Filler, Fuel Distribution System Operator, Gas Transfer Operator, Grease and Tallow Pumper, Liquor Bridge Operator, Logistics Technician, Main Line Station Engineer, Monitor Car Operator, Oil Pumper, Outside Operator, Panelboard Tank Pumper, Pigment Pumper, Pipeline Dispatch Operator, Pipeline Operator, Process Operator, Product Transfer Pumper, Production Recovery Operator, Production Utility Worker, Pump Operator, Pump Runner, Pump Station Operator, Pump Tender, Pumper, Pumper Gager, Pumper Gager Apprentice, Pumpman, Purification Operator, Station Engineer, Still Pump Operator, Tank Car Loader, Tank Farm Attendant, Tank Farm Operator, Tank Tender, Tapper, Treating Plant Pumper, Utility Operator, Wash Oil Pump Operator, Waste Oil Pumper,

• 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.
• Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.
• Tend 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.
• Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
• Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, utilizing knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage.
• Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders, in order to determine amounts to be pumped.
• Clean, lubricate, and repair pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment.
• Collect and deliver sample solutions for laboratory analysis.
• Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools.
• Tend auxiliary equipment such as water treatment and refrigeration units, and heat exchangers.
• Add chemicals and solutions to tanks to ensure that specifications are met.
• Pump two or more materials into one tank to blend mixtures.
• Test materials and solutions, using testing equipment.