Job Description:

• 1) Tends distillation units and auxiliary equipment to separate volatile chemical compounds into specified components, performing combination of following tasks under direction of equipment operator: Turns valves and starts pumps as directed.

• 2) Records temperature, pressure, and flow indicator readings.

• 3) Measures liquid in tanks, using gauging rod or tape, and draws samples for laboratory analysis.

• 4) Inspects pipes for leaks.

• 5) Moves controls to start semiautomatic still auxiliaries, such as heat exchangers, stripping columns, vaporizers, flash tanks, and condensers, and to maintain specified operating equilibrium in equipment as directed.

• 6) Assists STILL OPERATOR, BATCH OR CONTINUOUS in transferring equipment and materials.

• 7) Cleans equipment, using hose, brushes, and scrapers.

• 8) May tend equipment to produce gas leak detectant odorants and be designated Second Operator.