Chemical and Related Process Operatives Career Details
About this Career
New workers start at around £18,243. Normal pay is £26,899 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £39,405.
Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in Greater London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs.
Daily Tasks
- Withdraws samples for quality control testing, removes and regulates discharge of batch material upon completion of processing.
- Cuts and trims skins, hides and pelts, removes wool, hair, flesh and other waste material, and washes, limes, tans, dyes and otherwise treats hides for making into leather, skin and fur products.
- Operates machines to coat film and tape with sensitising material and otherwise impregnate materials by immersion, split and mould mica and produce asbestos pipes and sheets.
- Operates kilns, furnaces and ovens to produce charcoal, coke and other carbon products.
- Regulates input of polymer into melting unit, extrudes polymer, gathers extruded filaments and feeds strands through rolling, cutting and treatment units to produce synthetic fibre.
- Prepares dye, bleaching, water repellent, fixing salt and other chemical solutions to finish and treat textiles.
- Loads prescribed quantities of ingredients into plant equipment, starts operational cycle, monitors instruments and gauges indicating conditions affecting the operation of the plant and adjusts controls as necessary.
Similar Careers
Capital City College Group
211 Gray’s Inn RoadKing’s Cross
London
WC1X 8RA
United Kingdom Contact Us
