pipeline pump operator

Job Zone

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed

Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order

• R Realistic6.68
• C Conventional4.50
• I Investigative2.27
• E Enterprising1.46
• S Social1.28
• A Artistic1.00

RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.

Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers (53-7072.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (18)

ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.

• act with a high level of safety awareness
• apply health and safety standards
• contribute to bilge and ballast operations
• maintain pipeline coating properties
• maintain tanks
• mechanical engineering
• mechanics
• monitor gauge
• monitor storage vessels used to transport goods via pipeline
• operate hydraulic pumps
• operate pumping equipment
• pipeline coating properties
• prevent pipeline deterioration
• pump products
• regulate the flow of substances in pipelines
• transfer liquid goods
• transfer oil
• use rigging equipment