Landfill Gas Technician
Quick Facts
Median Salary$66,102
Most Common EducationHigh school or GED
Projected 10-Year Growth-3.22%
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What They Do
A Landfill Gas Technician ensures safety at landfills by controlling the level of methane gas to prevent combustion or explosions.
Core Tasks:
- Monitor equipment functioning, observe temperature, level, and flow gauges, and perform regular unit checks to ensure that all equipment is operating as it should.
- Distribute or process gas for utility companies or industrial plants, using panel boards, control boards, and semi-automatic equipment.
- Control operation of compressors, scrubbers, evaporators, and refrigeration equipment to liquefy, compress, or regasify natural gas.
- Control equipment to regulate flow and pressure of gas to feedlines of boilers, furnaces, and related steam-generating or heating equipment.
- Record, review, and compile operations records, test results, and gauge readings such as temperatures, pressures, concentrations, and flows.
- Determine causes of abnormal pressure variances, and make corrective recommendations, such as installation of pipes to relieve overloading.
- Adjust temperature, pressure, vacuum, level, flow rate, or transfer of gas to maintain processes at required levels or to correct problems.
- Collaborate with other operators to solve unit problems.
- Monitor transportation and storage of flammable and other potentially dangerous products to ensure that safety guidelines are followed.
- Start and shut down plant equipment.
- Read logsheets to determine product demand and disposition, or to detect malfunctions.
- Clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using hand tools, or request that repair and maintenance work be performed.
- 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.
- Contact maintenance crews when necessary.
- Signal or direct workers who tend auxiliary equipment.
What to expect as a Landfill Gas Technician
1Earn a High school or GED Diploma
52% of people achieve this level of education.
2Gain skills and experience
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3Land a job
124 openings for Landfill Gas Technicians
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