# Tasks & work activities — gas processing plant supervisor

Source: O*NET 30.3, occupation 51-8092.00 (Gas Plant Operators) — manual nearest-occupation mapping via ISCO group 3133; the official ESCO crosswalk has no entry for this ESCO occupation.

## Task statements

- **[Core]** Monitor transportation and storage of flammable and other potentially dangerous products to ensure that safety guidelines are followed.
- **[Core]** Monitor equipment functioning, observe temperature, level, and flow gauges, and perform regular unit checks to ensure that all equipment is operating as it should.
- **[Core]** Control operation of compressors, scrubbers, evaporators, and refrigeration equipment to liquefy, compress, or regasify natural gas.
- **[Core]** Start and shut down plant equipment.
- **[Core]** Record, review, and compile operations records, test results, and gauge readings such as temperatures, pressures, concentrations, and flows.
- **[Core]** Adjust temperature, pressure, vacuum, level, flow rate, or transfer of gas to maintain processes at required levels or to correct problems.
- **[Core]** Clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using hand tools, or request that repair and maintenance work be performed.
- **[Core]** Collaborate with other operators to solve unit problems.
- **[Core]** Determine causes of abnormal pressure variances, and make corrective recommendations, such as installation of pipes to relieve overloading.
- **[Core]** Read logsheets to determine product demand and disposition, or to detect malfunctions.
- **[Core]** 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.
- **[Core]** Contact maintenance crews when necessary.
- **[Supplemental]** Change charts in recording meters.
- **[Core]** Distribute or process gas for utility companies or industrial plants, using panel boards, control boards, and semi-automatic equipment.
- **[Core]** Control equipment to regulate flow and pressure of gas to feedlines of boilers, furnaces, and related steam-generating or heating equipment.
- **[Supplemental]** Control fractioning columns, compressors, purifying towers, heat exchangers, and related equipment to extract nitrogen and oxygen from air.
- **[Supplemental]** Calculate gas ratios to detect deviations from specifications, using testing apparatus.
- **[Core]** Signal or direct workers who tend auxiliary equipment.
- **[Supplemental]** Operate construction equipment to install and maintain gas distribution systems.

## Detailed work activities

- Adjust equipment controls to regulate gas flow.
- Advise others on ways to improve processes or products.
- Analyze test results.
- Clean production equipment.
- Confer with others to resolve production problems or equipment malfunctions.
- Diagnose equipment malfunctions.
- Direct operational or production activities.
- Inspect production equipment.
- Maintain production or processing equipment.
- Monitor equipment operation to ensure proper functioning.
- Notify others of equipment repair or maintenance needs.
- Operate natural gas distribution equipment.
- Operate natural gas generation equipment.
- Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
- Record operational or production data.
- Repair production equipment or tools.
- Signal others to coordinate work activities.
- Test chemical or physical characteristics of materials or products.