Pump Worker / Operator
Quick Facts
Median Salary$55,210
Most Common EducationHigh school or GED
Projected 10-Year Growth+17.98%
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What They Do
A Pump Worker or Operator operates pumps that are part of a large heating, cooling, and ventilation system. May operate pumps that move water in and out of water treatment systems or wastewater treatment plants. Operates pumps at a construction site.
Core Tasks:
- 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.
- Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage.
- Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.
- Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
- Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools.
- 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.
- Clean, lubricate, and repair pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment.
- Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders to determine amounts to be pumped.
- Test materials and solutions, using testing equipment.
What to expect as a Pump Worker / Operator
1Earn a High school or GED Diploma
37% of people achieve this level of education.
2Gain skills and experience
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3Land a job
234 openings for Pump Workers / Operators
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