Gas Plant Operators

Communication | Telephone 86%, email 74%, face-to-face 64% daily (continuous contact with others 51%); hand over and report to dispatch and maintenance and safety positions per procedure. Contact intensity | Continuous contact with others (51%); physical proximity is moderately close (within arm's reach) (37%). Team and collaboration | Cooperate with other operators to solve unit problems (task importance 83); coordinating or leading others is important (35%). Decision-making and autonomy | Makes decisions daily (50%); determining tasks and priorities is some freedom (40%); the freedom to make decisions is some freedom (47%). Precision and consequences | Accuracy extremely important 52% and very important 48%; error extremely serious 59% and very serious 25%, each a questionnaire distribution and not an accident rate. Responsibility and impact | Has very high responsibility for the health and safety of others (45%); has high responsibility for the work results of others (34%). Physical effort and pace | Standing about half the time (46%); continuously or almost continuously using hands to handle, control or feel objects and tools (42%); the pace being determined by equipment speed is not at all important (27%). Environment and exposure | Outdoors in all weather daily (67%); hazardous conditions daily (62%); contaminants daily (58%); dangerous equipment daily (31%); high and low temperatures once a week or more but not daily (30%); indoors environmentally controlled daily (50%); indoors not environmentally controlled daily (38%); outdoors under cover daily (31%); in an enclosed vehicle or enclosed equipment daily (45%). Automation and stress | The degree of automation of the unit is highly automated (46%); repeating the same task is very important (52%); time pressure once a month or more but not weekly (40%); typical workweek more than 40 hours (52%).

Read gauges, distribute and process and adjust within authority per procedure; handle anomalies per the real contingency plan.

2025 US national 51-8092 annual wages at the 10/25/50/75/90 percentiles are 61,350/76,870/87,820/100,870/115,520 USD; the corresponding hourly rates 29.50/36.96/42.22/48.49/55.54 USD were re-verified this round on the national wage page. The median is not a starting wage, and percentiles are not seniority or duty causality, and individual take-home pay cannot be derived at 2,080 hours. OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes. BLS direct EP51-8092: 2025 employment 18.2 thousand → 2035 projected 17.1 thousand, published net decrease 1.1 thousand, decline 6.0%, annual average openings 1.4 thousand (1,400); the self-employed column has a dash and is not treated as 0%. Openings include transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring, and the change rate is not back-calculated from the rounded employment.

Status check → read gauges → authorized adjustment → sampling → recording → hand over per the contingency plan

Precise Chinese occupational data are a bounded gap not obtained, and the complete gap is disclosed in this block's pre-employment check wage notes; NBS industry and the five job groups are not a precise SOC correspondence, and national statistics are not inferred not to exist.

Training, qualifications, work permits and authority are verified separately; handle anomalies per the real procedures.

BLS direct EP51-8092: 2025 employment 18.2 thousand → 2035 projected 17.1 thousand, published net decrease 1.1 thousand, decline 6.0%, annual average openings 1.4 thousand (1,400); the self-employed column has a dash and is not treated as 0%. Openings include transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring, and the change rate is not back-calculated from the rounded employment.

Status check → read gauges → authorized adjustment → sampling → recording → hand over per the contingency plan

China's Work Safety Law Article 28 requires passing safety education and training and truthful training records, and Article 30 limits special qualifications to actual nationally defined special operations; no confined space, pressure equipment or gas site task is all judged under one certificate. Training, special qualifications, work permits, employer authority and applicable health conditions are verified separately. US OSHA1910.119 applies according to the covered process, thresholds and exception judgments, and does not apply PSM to all positions by occupation name; its paragraph (f) requires real written operating procedures and responsibility for emergency shutdown conditions. The OQ in 49CFR192.801 applies only to covered tasks for pipeline facility operation and maintenance identified by the operator, required by Part192 and affecting operational integrity, not a uniform license for all gas plant employees. Operating parameters are not automatically personal or sensitive personal information; first check the applicable law, purpose authority and necessary scope. Errors are corrected per the rules by appending the basis for correction and the version, without overwriting the original record or falsely filling in measurements.

Keep the original readings and append corrections to errors; proposed reporting was not received.

Boundary conclusion | This page corresponds to US SOC 51-8092.00, and the core difference from adjacent positions lies in the object and the output: this occupation takes natural gas units and compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment and pressure regulation processes as its object, and its output is stable, verifiable gas distribution and processing and compression or liquefaction or regasification operations and parameter and test records; gas compressor and gas pumping station operators (53-7071.00) take the compression and pumping operation of pipeline compressor stations and pumping stations as their object, focusing on maintaining pipeline pressure; petroleum pump system operators and refinery gaugers (51-8093.00) take refinery and petroleum product pumping and metering as their object and handle the broader petroleum refining process and product metering; stationary engineers and boiler operators (51-8021.00) take boilers and steam and heating equipment as their object; chemical plant and system operators (51-8091.00) take the units of chemical reaction and separation systems as their object. The objects and outputs all differ, and equipment adjustment and parameter setting and safety isolation and work permit authority cannot be carried over across positions.

Core concept of adjacent positions | Most positions in the group and adjacent positions aim to keep equipment and media and parameters under control per procedures at an industrial site and to be responsible for safety and continuous gas or energy supply; the difference lies in the object and the output: some take natural gas units and liquefaction and purification and pressure regulation as the object, some take pipeline compressor stations and pumping stations, some take refinery units and product metering, some take boilers and steam and power systems, and some take chemical reaction and separation systems.

Core purpose of this occupation | With natural gas units and compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment and pressure regulation processes as its object, within the bounds of safety and work permits and institutional procedures, convert intake and stored gas into deliverable gas meeting specifications and pressure: shift inspection and gauge reading, distribution and processing and pressure regulation, controlling units and processes, sampling and testing, recording and review, and handling and reporting anomalies per the real contingency plan, so that the operating process and parameters are traceable and meet safety and environmental requirements.

Main objects and basis of adjacent positions | Gas compressor and pumping station operators rely on pipeline compressor stations and pumping stations and pipeline pressure; petroleum pump system operators and refinery gaugers rely on refinery units and product pumping and metering procedures; stationary engineers and boiler operators rely on boilers and steam and power equipment and supporting systems; chemical plant and system operators rely on chemical reaction and separation processes and safety (including explosion protection and toxic media) procedures.

Main objects and basis of this occupation | The objects are compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment and fractionation columns and purification columns and heat exchangers, panels and control boards and semiautomatic equipment, instruments and flow meters and recording instruments, valves and pipes and storage facilities, gas and chemical and air samples and indicators such as purity and water content, and operating logs and test results and operating records, based on institutional safety procedures and work permits and operating procedures, process safety management and equipment integrity requirements, and environmental and metering and record requirements.

51-8092 distributes and processes gas for utility or industrial facilities and controls main pressure; the 15 core tasks include monitoring and control, parameter adjustment, test records, hand tool maintenance and repair or requesting repair, and directing helper workers. The four supplemental tasks include nitrogen and oxygen extraction, mixture ratio calculation, construction and chart changing, and are not core for all staff. Actual shifts, equipment and media, training, health, special qualifications, permits and authority are verified separately; a workweek over 40 hours 52% and 46% highly automated do not prove that all positions only monitor or share one shift system.

Core process of adjacent positions | Gas compressor and pumping station operators focus on pipeline compressor station and pumping station operation and pressure maintenance; petroleum pump system operators and refinery gaugers focus on refinery unit operation and product pumping and metering; stationary engineers and boiler operators focus on boiler and power equipment operation and thermal regulation; chemical plant and system operators focus on chemical reaction and separation system operation and process parameter control.

Core process of this occupation | Take over the shift and inspect per procedure and check the status of units and instruments and valves, read temperature and liquid level and flow and pressure and perform unit inspections, distribute and process gas and adjust parameters and start up and shut down and switch, sample and test purity and water content, record and review operating data and test results, and handle anomalies per the real contingency plan and contact maintenance; every step must leave a trail per safety procedures and work permits and be reviewable by supervisors and dispatch and maintenance and safety positions.

Main outputs of adjacent positions | Gas compressor and pumping station operators produce compressor station and pumping station operation and pressure and flow records; petroleum pump system operators and refinery gaugers produce refinery unit operation and product pumping and metering records; stationary engineers and boiler operators produce boiler and power system operation and thermal records; chemical plant and system operators produce chemical products and process operation and quality records.

Main outputs of this occupation | Stable, verifiable gas distribution and processing and compression or liquefaction or regasification operations and parameter records (temperature, pressure, liquid level and flow and concentration), start-up and shutdown and switching and adjustment records, purity and water content test results for gas and chemicals and air, operating logs and operating records and test result summaries, and equipment maintenance and anomaly and handling and handover records.

Responsible parties for adjacent positions | Responsibility for positions in the group and adjacent positions is usually defined by the institution and safety and process procedures and work permits, and the objects of responsibility are mostly the institution and the crew and the safety of others and continuity of gas or energy supply.

Responsibility for the shift's actual operating parameter adjustment, test record maintenance and safety implementation follows the duties; protection setting changes, special operations and quality and metering authority are verified separately, and it is not stated broadly that frontline staff cannot judge anomalies.

Adjacent positions judge, control, maintain and handle anomalies per their own real procedures and authority, and it is not inferred that frontline staff never have judgment authority; out-of-authority or missing conditions are handed over per the rules, and cross-equipment authority is not granted by general articles.

Within authority, distribution and processing, parameter adjustment and start-up and shutdown, sampling and testing and maintenance may be carried out per the real procedures; interlock and protection changes, special operations and quality and metering authority are verified separately, anomalies are handled per the contingency plan, and out-of-authority and insufficient information are escalated.

Conclusion boundaries of adjacent positions | Conclusions for positions in the group and adjacent positions are mostly limited to the shift and the position and the unit level and usually do not constitute a final determination of equipment integrity, gas quality or metering settlement; conclusions across units and sites and institutions have limits to their applicability.

On-shift conclusions distinguish readings, calculations, inferences and unknowns; judgments within authority follow the real procedures, and missing standards or out-of-scope matters are verified separately. A paper weighted value from G02 does not represent purity, actual product compliance or permission to adjust valves.

Pre-employment check notes | The following six items are used to check item by item before applying and starting, so as not to infer actual duties and authority from a job title or promotional language; the check results should be based on written recruitment information, the labor contract, the job description and the institution's safety and operating procedures, and should be continuously confirmed after starting. This page lists only check directions and does not constitute a formal conditions list for any institution. Special note: this occupation involves high-pressure and flammable gas units and highly hazardous processes, so be sure to confirm the position's actual unit type (purification and liquefaction and pressure regulation and storage and supply) and the work permit and training and operator qualification requirements and the authority boundaries.

Check point notes | Positions with similar names differ greatly in duties: some focus on purification and dehydration and desulfurization, some on liquefaction and regasification and storage, some on pressure regulation and distribution and supply, and some on fractionation and extraction and compression; different units and institutions also have different authority requirements for work permits, interlocks, isolation, process safety management, operator qualifications and records.

01 Actual duties and authority boundaries | Check whether the role really carries unit operation and parameter adjustment and sampling and testing, or is mainly inspection assistance or site maintenance or watch duty; check the authority to change interlock, alarm and protection settings, the shutdown, isolation and reporting path for overpressure or leaks or equipment failure, and the approval and record responsibility for process parameter adjustment and start-up, shutdown and switching.

China's Work Safety Law Article 28 requires passing safety education and training and truthful training records, and Article 30 limits special qualifications to actual nationally defined special operations; no confined space, pressure equipment or gas site task is all judged under one certificate. Training, special qualifications, work permits, employer authority and applicable health conditions are verified separately. US OSHA1910.119 applies according to the covered process, thresholds and exception judgments, and does not apply PSM to all positions by occupation name; its paragraph (f) requires real written operating procedures and responsibility for emergency shutdown conditions. The OQ in 49CFR192.801 applies only to covered tasks for pipeline facility operation and maintenance identified by the operator, required by Part192 and affecting operational integrity, not a uniform license for all gas plant employees.

Check the target task's safety training, emergency procedures, special qualifications and permits, plus employer authority, applicable occupational health and record requirements; US PSM and OQ are verified per the actual jurisdiction and coverage and cannot be copied wholesale by occupation or for all of China.

BLS direct EP and education table 51-8092 typically high school or equivalent, no related work experience, long-term on-the-job training. O*NET Zone1–2 is a broad preparation group, and several days to one year cannot be treated as a fixed duration for this occupation; the newly hired education questionnaire shows 58% high school, 31% postsecondary certificate, 11% two-year degree, which is a US questionnaire distribution and not a Chinese requirement.

Check the target recruitment education and experience, long-term equipment and process training and assessment; special qualifications are verified per the actual duty and jurisdiction, and permits and employer authority are separate, with no one certificate for confined space, pressure operations or all on-site staff.

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist. OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes.

04 Wage, hours and contract basis | Check the composition of the offered pay (base wage, shift or night or on-site or hardship allowance, overtime or compensatory rest, performance), the working hours and shift and on-site arrangements, the probation and assessment basis, and whether responsibility agreements and compensation clauses cover equipment and process and safety and metering records.

Check point notes | Interfaces with dispatch and maintenance and safety and quality and upstream and downstream gas users determine the responsibility boundaries for distribution and processing and parameter adjustment and anomaly reporting and handover, and must be clarified in advance.

05 Interface authority with dispatch and maintenance and safety and gas users | Check the authority to communicate with the dispatch center and report load and execute adjustments, the equipment repair and fault handling and interlock reset path with maintenance positions, the work permit and anomaly and emergency reporting path with safety positions, the way coordination with upstream and downstream gas users and storage facilities works, and the role arrangement for crew shift handover and collaboration.

Check point notes | The traceability and trail requirements for operating parameters and test results and meter readings and equipment maintenance and anomaly handling records determine the definition of operation and safety and quality and metering responsibility, and the rules for version, modification, archiving, access and retention period must be clarified in advance.

Check the version, appended correction, archiving, retention and access rules for the original parameters, tests, maintenance and handover; do not fill in measurements for unknowns, keep the original and then revise when a record is wrong per the rules, and do not equate a truthful correction with forgery or alteration.

Conclusion | The core difference between this occupation (US SOC 51-8092.00 Gas Plant Operators) and adjacent positions lies in the object and the output: this occupation takes natural gas units and compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment and pressure regulation processes as its object, and its output is stable, verifiable gas distribution and processing and compression or liquefaction or regasification operations and parameter and test records; gas compressor and gas pumping station operators (53-7071.00) take the compression and pumping of pipeline compressor stations and pumping stations as their object, focusing on maintaining the specified pipeline pressure; chemical plant and system operators (51-8091.00) take chemical reaction and separation systems and product specifications as their object; stationary engineers and boiler operators (51-8021.00) take boilers and steam and heating equipment and thermal systems as their object; petroleum pump system operators and refinery gaugers (51-8093.00) take refinery units and product pumping and metering as their object; control and valve installers and repairers (non-mechanical category, 49-9012.00) produce the installation, calibration and repair of control and valve devices. The objects and outputs all differ, and equipment adjustment and parameter setting and safety isolation and work permit authority cannot be carried over across positions.

Sources and boundaries: the six directions are compared editorially by the focus of the official object and output, duties may overlap and are not mutually exclusive or uniformly organized; wages, qualifications and equipment authority are verified separately, with no cross-occupation substitution.

The six directions differ in the focus of the object and output and are not all in the same site or interchangeable. Crossing directions requires separately verifying the equipment and media, training and qualifications and employer authority.

Key differences: this occupation takes natural gas units and compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment and pressure regulation processes as its object, completes gas distribution and processing and pressure regulation and sampling and testing and is responsible for operating stability and safety; the other positions center respectively on pipeline compression and pumping, chemical reaction and separation, boilers and steam and power, refining and product metering, and control and valve devices, and usually are not responsible for the distribution and processing and parameter and quality records of natural gas units.

Better suited to people who are willing to monitor trends and read gauges per procedure in outdoor and hazardous materials environments, keep attention for long periods, and consistently wear protective equipment and strictly follow safety and work permit and process safety management requirements.

Core work and outputs: take over the shift and inspect and check the status of compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment and valves and instruments and panels, read temperature and liquid level and flow and pressure and perform unit inspections, distribute or process gas and adjust parameters and start up and shut down and switch, control equipment to regulate the flow and pressure of gas sent to boilers and furnaces, sample and test the purity and water content of gas and chemicals and air, record and review operating records and test results, and determine abnormal pressure fluctuations and propose and execute corrective measures; the outputs are stable, verifiable gas distribution and processing and pressure regulation operation and parameter and test records (US SOC 51-8092.00).

This occupation: Gas Plant Operators (51-8092.00)

53-7071 gas compression and pumping stations focus on compressor and power pump monitoring, recording, sampling and mechanical maintenance, and cover multiple gases; 51-8092 focuses on processing, distribution, liquefaction, regasification and main pressure. Tasks may overlap, and pipeline pressure cannot be made the exclusive domain of the former.

Better suited to people willing to take responsibility for pipeline compressor station and pumping station operation and pipeline pressure maintenance; this occupation leans more toward gas processing and distribution and pressure regulation and liquefaction processes.

Core work and outputs: operate compressors and power-driven pumps driven by steam or gas or electric motors or internal combustion engines, monitor instruments and pressure gauges and adjust valves and equipment, sample and test and read gas meters and record the gas received and distributed by holders, and submit daily facility operating reports; the outputs are compression and conveyance operation and parameter and gas volume and quality records.

Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators (53-7071.00)

Key differences: chemical plant and system operators produce chemical reaction and separation systems and product specifications, with broader media and processes (including potentially toxic and hazardous and flammable media); this occupation centers on natural gas processing and distribution and pressure regulation and usually does not take responsibility for the product specifications of chemical reaction units, but is equally subject to process safety management.

Better suited to people willing to take responsibility for chemical reaction and separation unit process operation and product specifications; this occupation leans more toward natural gas processing and distribution and pressure regulation processes.

Core work and outputs: operate and control chemical reaction and separation units (reactors, distillation columns, heat exchangers and pumps), adjust process parameters and product specifications, sample and test and handle process anomalies and record; the outputs are chemical products meeting specifications and process operation and quality records.

Chemical Plant and System Operators (51-8091.00)

Key differences: stationary engineers and boiler operators produce boilers and steam and heating equipment and thermal systems, involving combustion and steam and thermal regulation; this occupation takes natural gas units and gas distribution as its object and usually does not take responsibility for the operation of boiler and steam systems.

Better suited to people willing to take responsibility for boiler and steam and power system operation and thermal regulation; this occupation leans more toward gas processing and distribution and pressure regulation equipment operation.

Core work and outputs: operate and monitor boilers and steam and power equipment with their pumps, valves and instruments, regulate combustion and water level and pressure and temperature, handle anomalies and record operating and maintenance data; the outputs are steam and power system operation and thermal and maintenance records.

Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators (51-8021.00)

Key differences: petroleum pump system operators and refinery gaugers produce refinery unit and product pumping and metering, with crude oil and refined products as the main media; this occupation takes natural gas and gas processing as its object and usually does not take responsibility for product metering in refinery units.

Better suited to people willing to take responsibility for refinery units and product pumping and metering; this occupation leans more toward natural gas processing and distribution and pressure regulation.

Core work and outputs: operate and control refinery units and product pumping systems, read and verify instruments and metering devices, sample and test and record product flow and quality data; the outputs are product pumping and metering and quality records.

Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers (51-8093.00)

Key differences: control and valve installers and repairers produce the installation, calibration and repair of control and valve devices, which is an installation and repair function; this occupation produces gas processing and distribution operation and usually does not take on control and valve device installation and calibration duties, but must cooperate with their repair and verification per procedure.

Better suited to people willing to take responsibility for control and valve device installation and calibration and repair; this occupation leans more toward unit operation and parameter adjustment and recording.

Core work and outputs: install, calibrate and repair control and valve devices used to regulate and control fluid flow and pressure (flow meters, control valves, safety valves, pressure regulators and pneumatic or electric actuators), read and verify instruments, check for leaks and operation and record; the outputs are installation, calibration and repair records for control and valve devices.

Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door (49-9012.00)

The six directions only help raise questions about equipment, processes and output preferences; actual recruitment education, experience, training, special qualifications, permits, authority and applicable health are verified item by item, and entry authority is not obtained through interest scores or paper tasks.

Newly hired and on-the-job learning stage

Editorial mechanism | Synthetic procedure and log drafts can be tried, with benefits unverified; learning under mentorship within authority, and real control and sampling follow the effective rules.

Independent operations position

Editorial mechanism | An approved recording system supports parameter records, and GenAI adoption benefits are unverified; control may be adjusted within authority, and out-of-authority concerns are escalated.

Skilled and mentoring position

Editorial mechanism | Synthetic training and trend explanations can be tried, and multi-unit and major parameter duties follow actual authority, not all staff in this occupation or measured benefits.

Dispatch and process safety support position

Editorial mechanism | Real dispatch and process safety appointments are verified separately; synthetic material can be tried, approved automation follows actual rules, and it is not asserted that all conclusions remain permanently manual.

Insufficient evidence: no quantified GenAI exposure, adoption rate, efficiency or employment causal evidence was obtained for this occupation 51-8092; the G02 paper draft aid is an editorial mechanism and does not guarantee speed gains, and 11 software categories and a traditional 46% highly automated do not equal GenAI adoption. Real on-site control, judgment and maintenance follow the real procedures and authority, and it is not asserted that they will necessarily or never be replaced.

Official tasks and context

19 tasks are divided into 15 core and 4 supplemental, plus 57 context items, and are not permits.

National 2025 wages

OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes.

BLS direct EP2025—2035

BLS direct EP51-8092: 2025 employment 18.2 thousand → 2035 projected 17.1 thousand, published net decrease 1.1 thousand, decline 6.0%, annual average openings 1.4 thousand (1,400); the self-employed column has a dash and is not treated as 0%. Openings include transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring, and the change rate is not back-calculated from the rounded employment.

Software catalog and adoption boundaries

This round the detail page lists 11 software categories: HYSYS, work scheduling, operating logs/Quorum PGAS, Outlook, SAP, SCADA, Office, Android, PowerPoint, Excel, Word. A catalog does not mean widespread enterprise adoption or GenAI adoption; whether DCS, PLC or CMMS are used is verified separately for the target facility.

ILO general task exposure research

The ILO general exposure framework is not a quantified, adoption or efficiency or causal finding for this occupation.

NIST general AI governance

NIST general governance is not a process parameter standard or work permit.

BLS typical education and training

BLS direct EP and education table 51-8092 typically high school or equivalent, no related work experience, long-term on-the-job training. O*NET Zone1–2 is a broad preparation group, and several days to one year cannot be treated as a fixed duration for this occupation; the newly hired education questionnaire shows 58% high school, 31% postsecondary certificate, 11% two-year degree, which is a US questionnaire distribution and not a Chinese requirement.

Tools can explore synthetic record drafts and checking mechanisms, with efficiency and adoption unverified; on-site distribution, processing, control, judgment, maintenance and work qualifications follow the real rules, and it is not judged from a catalog that replacement is forever impossible or adoption is already widespread.

G02 synthetic inputs can be used to explore draft checking and do not guarantee acceleration.

Gas distribution and processing and pressure regulation and start-up and shutdown and switching and parameter setting

Maintenance and energy consumption and test ledger organization can be aided by tools

Real sampling and testing and purity and moisture judgments follow procedures and authority, and original samples, readings, unknowns and corrections are kept truthfully.

Procedure and process safety and training and emergency material lists can be generated by tools

This occupation performs hand tool maintenance and repair or requests repair, and real equipment isolation and repair permits are verified separately.

Evidence preface | Citation rules: cite only sources that can support this page's claims; state the jurisdiction, period and statistical scope; general research focused on broad occupational groups must not be used to infer changes to individual positions in this occupation; technology lists do not equal adoption; sources cannot replace frontline staff's on-site judgment about units and parameters and samples and records, nor can they replace institutional safety procedures and process safety management and work permits and operator qualification requirements.

Occupational-level description, not an automation risk assessment

O*NET 51-8092.00 detailed information

Tasks and work context are occupational-level descriptions showing outdoor and hazardous materials exposure and long monitoring under high automation

Tools can explore synthetic record drafts and checking mechanisms, with efficiency and adoption unverified; on-site distribution, processing, control, judgment, maintenance and work qualifications follow the real rules, and it is not judged from a catalog that replacement is forever impossible or adoption is already widespread.

Not applicable to other jurisdictions; the median does not equal a starting wage

BLS OEWS (May 2025)

A point-in-time sample estimate of US wages

2025 US national 51-8092 annual wages at the 10/25/50/75/90 percentiles are 61,350/76,870/87,820/100,870/115,520 USD; the corresponding hourly rates 29.50/36.96/42.22/48.49/55.54 USD were re-verified this round on the national wage page. The median is not a starting wage, and percentiles are not seniority or duty causality, and individual take-home pay cannot be derived at 2,080 hours. OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes.

Projections are not actual hiring numbers and differ in basis from the OEWS point-in-time employment estimate

BLS direct EP2025—2035

The projection includes growth and replacement needs

BLS direct EP51-8092: 2025 employment 18.2 thousand → 2035 projected 17.1 thousand, published net decrease 1.1 thousand, decline 6.0%, annual average openings 1.4 thousand (1,400); the self-employed column has a dash and is not treated as 0%. Openings include transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring, and the change rate is not back-calculated from the rounded employment.

Mentioning technology does not equal adoption or degree of automation

O*NET 51-8092 software catalog

It lists several hot technologies and software skills

A software catalog does not prove organizational adoption, efficiency or GenAI; within authority this occupation may adjust control and maintenance, and approved automation systems follow the actual rules.

Not a process safety or metering or environmental standard

NIST AI RMF 1.0

General AI risk governance framework

Adopting digital tools requires clarifying responsibility, data and fallback plans

Technical feasibility: a task may be technically reachable by a tool, which is only a feasibility judgment and does not mean it is permitted to be used or has been adopted by the organization.

Organizational adoption: whether it is introduced depends on industrial control and safety integrity levels and process safety management and institutional safety management systems and work permits; parameter setting and anomaly handling and process safety responsibility cannot be transferred by introducing tools.

Job outcomes: whether task changes lead to job gains or losses depends on the scale of gas processing and distribution and automation and remote monitoring coverage and unit staffing structure, and cannot be directly inferred from technical feasibility.

Insufficient evidence: no quantified GenAI exposure, adoption rate, efficiency or employment causal evidence was obtained for this occupation 51-8092; the G02 paper draft aid is an editorial mechanism and does not guarantee speed gains, and 11 software categories and a traditional 46% highly automated do not equal GenAI adoption.

O*NET 51-8092.00 (tasks and work context)

No unified programming threshold for this occupation was verified; a catalog is not a mandatory employer requirement. First check the target recruitment and equipment training, and paper G02 may use a calculator.

O*NET 51-8092 software catalog

G02 input checking, draft formulas and error versions can be explored; efficiency and adoption are unverified, and no measured data or real work approval is generated.

O*NET 51-8092 tasks and work context

BLS direct EP51-8092: 2025 employment 18.2 thousand → 2035 projected 17.1 thousand, published net decrease 1.1 thousand, decline 6.0%, annual average openings 1.4 thousand (1,400); the self-employed column has a dash and is not treated as 0%. Openings include transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring, and the change rate is not back-calculated from the rounded employment. The decline is not GenAI causality or an individual conclusion.

BLS direct EP2025—2035

G02 drafts do not grant on-site parameter adjustment or quality release authority; real control automation and responsibility follow equipment procedures and authority, and paper cannot substitute for approval.

NIST AI RMF (governance principles)

The year of disappearance was not verified; an EP decline of 6% is not reaching zero by 2035, let alone GenAI causality.

BLS direct EP2025—2035 (not a year-of-disappearance projection)

First check the 15 core and 4 supplemental tasks, the original reading units and period, unknowns and versions; work on paper with G02, and the target's long-term equipment and process training and safety authority are verified separately.

BLS typical education and long-term on-the-job training

Before adoption, check the actual authority, original inputs, review method and error correction; tool capability is not proof of efficiency or real adoption.

Editorial step | Check this use, the equipment and media, the original reading units and times, and the effective procedures and position and system authority.

Editorial step | Draft and check only with synthetic or approved material, keep approved control systems separate from GenAI, and drafts do not grant on-site action authority.

Editorial step | Review the original sample readings, units and concentrations and periods, keep unknowns as unknown, and handle real anomalies per the operating emergency procedures and authority.

Editorial step | Keep the original inputs, tool version, output and the basis for manual correction, link them to the formal operating and test records, and do not falsely write measurements.

Editorial step | The actually authorized person confirms use and handling, and out-of-authority or insufficient conditions are escalated, with PSM and OQ verified per the actual covered process and tasks.

Distorted operation and safety data can cause unit accidents and production stoppages and compliance consequences

Before external reporting and release, verify and leave a trail and identify the authorized person

Unauthorized external supply of operation, test and location material may leak commercial or applicable protected information; equipment parameters are not automatically personal sensitive information.

Check jurisdiction, purpose, classification and external disclosure authority, and use only synthetic or approved material with external services.

Without the original inputs, tool version and manual corrections, unit, concentration and period differences cannot be reproduced or located.

Keep the original readings, tool version, output and manual revisions, link them to the formal log, and do not write in missing measurements.

Distorted records affect safety traceability and quality and regulatory inspection

Records must reflect the real situation, and generating unverified operation and test content is prohibited

When an accident or parameter deviation or quality dispute occurs, responsibility cannot be defined

Before adopting a tool, clarify the persons responsible for operation, review and release, and leave a trail

Inspection and gauge reading and deviation judgment are completed by the individual per procedure

Shift inspection and gauge reading

The ledger can assist, while inspection and judgment are the person's responsibility

Monitor equipment operation and observe temperature and liquid level and flow meters and perform unit inspections

Distribution and processing and load adjustment are completed by the individual per procedure and dispatch instructions

Distribute and process gas

Recording can assist, while operation and confirmation are the person's responsibility

Use panels and control boards and semiautomatic equipment to distribute or process gas

Unit and process control and parameter adjustment are completed by the individual per procedure

Compression and liquefaction and pressure regulation

Trends can assist, while adjustment and judgment are the person's responsibility

Control compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment and adjust parameters

Sampling and testing and judgment are completed by the individual per procedure

Sampling and testing

Recording can assist, while sampling and judgment are the person's responsibility

Test the purity and water content of gas and chemicals and air

This occupation determines abnormal pressure causes, proposes suggestions and makes adjustments per actual authority; design and construction approval is verified separately, and out-of-authority matters are escalated.

Anomaly judgment and correction

Prompts can assist, while judgment and handling are the person's responsibility

Determine the causes of abnormal pressure fluctuations and propose and execute corrective measures

Recording and review are completed by the individual and the reviewer

Recording and review

The ledger can assist, while authenticity and the trail are the person's responsibility

Record, review and summarize operating records and test results and meter readings

Anomaly identification and measures follow the real procedures and actual authority, and missing information or out-of-authority matters are handed over per the rules.

Anomaly collaboration and escalation

Prompts can assist, while judgment and handling are the person's responsibility

Keep the original readings and anomaly status, take applicable measures per the actual procedures and contingency plan and contact the appropriate personnel.

Insufficient evidence: no quantified GenAI exposure, adoption rate, efficiency or employment causal evidence was obtained for this occupation 51-8092; the G02 paper draft aid is an editorial mechanism and does not guarantee speed gains, and 11 software categories and a traditional 46% highly automated do not equal GenAI adoption. Real on-site control, judgment and maintenance follow the real procedures and authority, and it is not asserted that they will necessarily or never be replaced.

Basis | 2025 national 51-8092 wage distribution; boundary | percentiles are not seniority or duty tiers, and the median is not a starting wage or individual take-home pay; OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes.

25th percentile annual wage 76,870 USD (May 2025, BLS OEWS, 51-8092.00)

Basis | 2025 national 51-8092 wage distribution; boundary | percentiles are not seniority or duty tiers, and the median is not a starting wage or individual take-home pay; OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes.

75th percentile annual wage 100,870 USD (May 2025, BLS OEWS, 51-8092.00)

Basis | 2025 national 51-8092 wage distribution; boundary | percentiles are not seniority or duty tiers, and the median is not a starting wage or individual take-home pay; OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes.

90th percentile annual wage 115,520 USD (May 2025, BLS OEWS, 51-8092.00)

Basis | 2025 national 51-8092 wage distribution; boundary | percentiles are not seniority or duty tiers, and the median is not a starting wage or individual take-home pay; OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes.

Employment 18,200 (2025, BLS direct EP51-8092)

Basis | direct EP2025 base period 18.2 thousand; boundary | the self-employed dash is not zero, and this is not OEWS point-in-time employee employment.

Decline 6.0% (2025—2035, BLS direct EP51-8092)

Basis | direct EP published decline 6.0%; boundary | not back-calculated from rounded numbers, and not AI causality or an individual employment forecast.

Annual average openings 1,400 (2025—2035, BLS direct EP51-8092)

Basis | direct EP annual average 1.4 thousand; boundary | includes transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring.

Insufficient evidence: no quantified GenAI exposure, adoption rate, efficiency or employment causal evidence was obtained for this occupation 51-8092; the G02 paper draft aid is an editorial mechanism and does not guarantee speed gains, and 11 software categories and a traditional 46% highly automated do not equal GenAI adoption.

Occupational definition | This page's Gas Plant Operators corresponds to US SOC 51-8092.00 Gas Plant Operators, with the official scope: distribute or process gas for utility companies and others by controlling compressors to maintain specified pressures on main pipelines. The core tasks include: monitor equipment operation and observe temperature and liquid level and flow meters and perform periodic unit inspections; use panels and control boards and semiautomatic equipment to distribute or process gas for utility or industrial customers; control compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment to liquefy or compress or regasify natural gas; control equipment to regulate the flow and pressure of gas sent to boilers and furnaces and related steam or heating equipment; record, review and summarize operating records and test results and meter readings; determine the causes of abnormal pressure fluctuations and propose and execute corrective measures; adjust temperature and pressure and vacuum and liquid level and flow; cooperate with other operators to solve unit problems; monitor whether the transport and storage of flammable and hazardous goods meet safety requirements; start and stop units and equipment; test the purity and water content of gas and chemicals and air during the process to find quality problems or leaks. The outputs are stable, verifiable gas distribution and processing and pressure regulation operation and parameter and test records; the above is the US basis, and the positions and statistical basis in mainland China are explained separately on this page.

US typical: high school or equivalent

US typical entry reference

BLS direct EP and education table 51-8092 typically high school or equivalent, no related work experience, long-term on-the-job training. O*NET Zone1–2 is a broad preparation group, and several days to one year cannot be treated as a fixed duration for this occupation; the newly hired education questionnaire shows 58% high school, 31% postsecondary certificate, 11% two-year degree, which is a US questionnaire distribution and not a Chinese requirement.

US typical: long-term on-the-job training

US typical training reference

BLS long-term OJT is this occupation's typical classification, not a fixed number of days or cost; the target unit's real training is verified separately.

Position equipment and process training

Real target task check

Check equipment, process, readings and safety training; a software catalog is not a position qualification or a programming threshold.

Applicable jurisdiction and work qualifications

Actual tasks and coverage

China's Work Safety Law Article 28 requires passing safety education and training and truthful training records, and Article 30 limits special qualifications to actual nationally defined special operations; no confined space, pressure equipment or gas site task is all judged under one certificate. Training, special qualifications, work permits, employer authority and applicable health conditions are verified separately. US OSHA1910.119 applies according to the covered process, thresholds and exception judgments, and does not apply PSM to all positions by occupation name; its paragraph (f) requires real written operating procedures and responsibility for emergency shutdown conditions. The OQ in 49CFR192.801 applies only to covered tasks for pipeline facility operation and maintenance identified by the operator, required by Part192 and affecting operational integrity, not a uniform license for all gas plant employees.

Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply

Related gas supply facilities may fall under utilities. NBS industry and the five major job groups are not this page's precise occupational wages and cannot be directly mapped to 51-8092, and are not used to fill in for this occupation.

Transportation, warehousing and postal services (including pipeline transportation)

Long-distance natural gas pipelines and gas storage and compression and conveyance links mostly fall under this industry category; that basis is an industry average, does not equal this occupation's wages, and is not used to fill in on this page.

Mining (including oil and gas extraction) and manufacturing

Oil and gas extraction and gathering and industrial gas links mostly fall under the related industry categories; that basis is an industry average, does not equal this occupation's wages, and is not used to fill in on this page.

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: enterprise pay survey information (major job category basis) | https://www.mohrss.gov.cn/SYrlzyhshbzb/laodongguanxi_/fwyd/202607/t20260708_579822.html

Gas Plant Operators: China precise occupational data and preparation check

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist.

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist. 2025 US national 51-8092 annual wages at the 10/25/50/75/90 percentiles are 61,350/76,870/87,820/100,870/115,520 USD; the corresponding hourly rates 29.50/36.96/42.22/48.49/55.54 USD were re-verified this round on the national wage page. The median is not a starting wage, and percentiles are not seniority or duty causality, and individual take-home pay cannot be derived at 2,080 hours.

National Bureau of Statistics: notes on the statistical basis for average wages of urban unit employees | https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/

The target facility's pay composition, hours and shifts are verified separately in the contract; this round did not obtain a causal breakdown of income by unit, seniority or shift, and national percentiles are not used to infer responsibility grades.

Mainland China national wages for this occupation

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist.

Mainland China city and regional wages for this occupation

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist.

Mainland China wages for this occupation by employment form

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist.

Classification comparison notes | US SOC 51-8092.00 falls under the production major group as Gas Plant Operators, and belongs to different unit and duty levels from gas compressor and pumping station operators (53-7071.00), petroleum pump system operators and refinery gaugers (51-8093.00), stationary engineers and boiler operators (51-8021.00), chemical plant and system operators (51-8091.00) and control and valve installers and repairers (non-mechanical category, 49-9012.00). International occupational classifications (such as ISCO-08) can only show the broad position of industrial equipment operation positions and cannot replace the US SOC or mainland China's occupational classification and statistical basis. Mainland China has related trades in urban gas and natural gas liquefaction and distribution, but they do not correspond precisely one-to-one with this page's US occupation, and the two have different statistical bases, so no numerical conversion is made.

Notes on the US BLS and O*NET statistical basis | https://www.bls.gov/oes/

Decline 6.0% (2025—2035, BLS direct EP51-8092)

Median hourly wage 42.22 USD / median annual wage 87,820 USD (May 2025, BLS OEWS, 51-8092.00)

25th percentile annual wage 76,870 USD (2025 national 51-8092)

Basis | 2025 national 51-8092 distribution; boundary | not a starting wage, seniority or duty causality or individual take-home pay.

Median annual wage 87,820 USD (hourly 42.22 USD) (2025 national 51-8092)

Basis | 2025 national 51-8092 distribution; boundary | not a starting wage, seniority or duty causality or individual take-home pay.

75th percentile annual wage 100,870 USD (2025 national 51-8092)

Basis | 2025 national 51-8092 distribution; boundary | not a starting wage, seniority or duty causality or individual take-home pay.

90th percentile annual wage 115,520 USD (2025 national 51-8092)

Basis | 2025 national 51-8092 distribution; boundary | not a starting wage, seniority or duty causality or individual take-home pay.

Employment 18,200 (2025, BLS direct EP51-8092)

Basis | direct EP base period 18.2 thousand; boundary | the self-employed dash is not 0, and the scope differs from OEWS.

Decline 6.0% (2025—2035, BLS direct EP51-8092)

Basis | direct EP published decline 6.0%; boundary | not back-calculated from rounded numbers, and not AI causality or an individual employment forecast.

Annual average openings 1,400 (2025—2035, BLS direct EP51-8092)

Basis | direct EP annual average 1.4 thousand; boundary | includes transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring.

The 2025 national five percentiles and CA's 130,220 annual median and 62.61 hourly for this occupation have been verified, and the state value does not substitute for the national 87,820; wages for other regions and the four industries, and unit, seniority and shift causality, were not obtained. The current industry44/31/25 gives no reference year, and old-period projections are not spliced.

2025 US national 51-8092 annual wages at the 10/25/50/75/90 percentiles are 61,350/76,870/87,820/100,870/115,520 USD; the corresponding hourly rates 29.50/36.96/42.22/48.49/55.54 USD were re-verified this round on the national wage page. The median is not a starting wage, and percentiles are not seniority or duty causality, and individual take-home pay cannot be derived at 2,080 hours. OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes. BLS direct EP51-8092: 2025 employment 18.2 thousand → 2035 projected 17.1 thousand, published net decrease 1.1 thousand, decline 6.0%, annual average openings 1.4 thousand (1,400); the self-employed column has a dash and is not treated as 0%. Openings include transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring, and the change rate is not back-calculated from the rounded employment.

The target unit's and institution's real pay is verified separately; this round obtained no causal breakdown of income.

Unit and institution type

Check the target region's quotes and cost of living, and do not treat nominal national percentiles as individual purchasing power.

Region and cost of living

Check the contract for the composition of shift allowances and overtime; OEWS excludes shift differentials and overtime premium, and a 52% workweek over 40 hours does not prove income causality.

Shift, overtime and allowances

Decline 6.0% (2025—2035, BLS direct EP51-8092)

Utilities

Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no median wage for this industry that can be read for this occupation; industry averages or third-party estimates are not used to fill in.

Currently utilities 44%, with no reference year given on the page, and not an industry wage.

Transportation and Warehousing

Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no median wage for this industry that can be read for this occupation; industry averages or third-party estimates are not used to fill in.

Currently transportation and warehousing 31%, with no reference year given on the page, and not this occupation's industry wage or a China mapping.

Others (including mining and oil and gas extraction and government)

Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no median wage for this industry that can be read for this occupation; industry averages or third-party estimates are not used to fill in.

Currently other 25%, including mining, oil and gas and government, with no reference year given on the page, and not the respective wages.

Other industries not separately listed

Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no median wage for this industry that can be read for this occupation; industry averages or third-party estimates are not used to fill in.

The wages of industries not separately listed are a native gap, and facts about other occupations such as aircraft manufacturing are not assumed.

The median is the midpoint of the distribution, not an entry wage, and the 2025 national 87,820 USD is not any employer's quote; percentiles are not seniority, unit or shift causality.

An hourly wage cannot be directly multiplied by 2,080 as individual take-home pay; 42.22 USD per hour and 87,820 USD per year are national statistics. Actual hours and income composition are verified separately, and OEWS excludes overtime premium, shift differentials and benefits.

Wages for 2025 are kept separate for the national basis and CA; direct EP2025—2035 has a different scope, and the self-employed dash must not be treated as zero; the current industry44/31/25 has no year and is not spliced into the same year.

Check actual income against the target contract's pay composition, hours and regional conditions, and do not assign an individual starting wage or position quote from national percentiles.

Median hourly wage 42.22 USD / median annual wage 87,820 USD (May 2025, BLS OEWS, 51-8092.00)

The 2025 national 10th percentile of 61,350 USD per year is a wage distribution position; a novice, assistant or low-seniority role cannot be determined from it.

The 2025 national median of 87,820 USD per year is the distribution midpoint; it does not equal an entry starting wage, individual take-home pay or shift allowance growth causality.

The 2025 national 90th percentile of 115,520 USD per year is the upper position of the distribution; seniority, mentoring, emergency or process safety responsibility cannot be determined from it.

O*NET RC for this occupation: R94/C70/I26/E21/S8/A0, and task preferences are for self-questioning only, not individual score matching, hiring or performance.

The occupational interest distribution comes from this occupation's questionnaire and is not this page's assessment validity or a hiring basis.

Self-question against the actual target equipment, media and working conditions; special qualifications, permits, authority and applicable health conditions are verified separately, and high interest scores do not substitute for real conditions.

Use G02 to self-question whether you can carefully check original inputs, calculations and unknowns, and do not judge greater adaptability from conscientiousness or emotional scores.

Insufficient evidence: the predictive validity of this page's personality or ability assessments for real performance in this occupation was not verified, and no hiring threshold is set.

Do not use a personality assessment saying you are unsuitable as a reason to give up or not enter; base the decision on on-site observation or job shadowing or simulated tasks and the results of institutional safety training and operator qualification confirmation.

How to understand this interest code: RC means the combination of realistic (completing concrete operations and inspection at unit and equipment sites) and conventional (running equipment and handling data and records per procedures and standards); it is used to understand preferences for this occupational direction, not to predict performance; this is consistent with the O*NET description of this occupation's tasks (monitoring equipment operation and observing temperature and liquid level and flow meters, controlling compressors and scrubbers and evaporators and refrigeration equipment, recording and reviewing operating records and test results).

MBTI | Typology is used for self-reflection on communication and work preferences; this occupation requires communicating per procedure with dispatch and crews and maintenance and safety positions, and preference does not determine competence.

Interest experience: likes to be fully responsible for one operation from shift inspection and gauge reading to distribution and processing and pressure regulation to sampling and testing to complete records, and gains satisfaction from getting equipment and parameters and test records right and complete at a unit site.

Purpose boundary | Used for preference self-questioning; the validity of prediction for this occupation is unverified, and it is not a personality score or hiring threshold.

RC

Realistic—Conventional

Treat the type only as a reference for communication style; do not use it to infer whether you or others can do unit operation and safety and record work well.

The Enneagram is used to observe reactions during abnormal shifts, and the method of checking against actual procedures is observed separately; the comparison of the two's predictive validity is unverified.

Purpose boundary | Used for preference self-questioning; the validity of prediction for this occupation is unverified, and it is not a personality score or hiring threshold.

Do not use type labels to explain errors or disputes; return to whether inspection and parameters and sampling and records and permits were in place.

IQ is used for self-questioning; reading units and concentrations and periods and the method for checking original records and unknowns can be observed, but the comparison with cognitive scores for this occupation's competence validity is unverified.

This round did not verify assessment validity for this occupation, and general cognitive scores do not substitute for long-term equipment and process training or position authority.

Whether scores are high or low cannot show whether one can learn unit operation and sampling and testing and safety procedures; this should be tested through on-site observation or job shadowing or simulated tasks and institutional safety training and operator qualification confirmation.

Emotional intelligence is used for self-questioning and synthetic handover communication, and the causal role of assessment scores in safety execution and teamwork is unverified.

Purpose boundary | Used for preference self-questioning; the validity of prediction for this occupation is unverified, and it is not a personality score or hiring threshold.

Paper-based unknown handling and communication can be practiced, while real training follows the target position; this occupation's assessment or practice results are not claimed to be proven.

Assessments and directions are for self-questioning only; education, experience, long-term training, special qualifications, permits, authority and applicable health are verified separately per the target task, and one standard is not inferred for the whole country or all gas facilities.

Interests and personality can only be self-questioned; paper checking with G02 is only a deliverable method, not a more reliable validity study, and does not substitute for real unit training, health conditions and authority.

Gas Plant Operators: 51-8092 gas distribution and processing, parameter and test records and maintenance

Can independently complete inspection and distribution and processing and parameter adjustment and sampling and testing and recording per procedures and work permits

If it is hard to endure outdoor and hazardous materials environments and continuous shifts or long monitoring of trends, or you are unwilling to strictly follow safety and process safety management and work permits, this occupation is not recommended.

Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators | Produce the compression and pumping operation of pipeline compressor stations and pumping stations: operate compressors and power-driven pumps, monitor instruments and pressure gauges and adjust valves and equipment, sample and test and read gas meters and record the gas received and distributed by holders

Has the ability to operate pipeline compression and pumping equipment and adjust parameters

If you want to focus on natural gas purification and liquefaction and pressure regulation and distribution rather than pipeline compression and pumping, this direction is not recommended.

Chemical plant and system operators | Produce chemical reaction and separation systems and product specifications: operate and control reactors and distillation columns and heat exchangers and pumps, adjust process parameters and product specifications, sample and test and handle process anomalies and record

Has the ability to operate chemical reaction and separation unit processes and manage product specifications

If you want to center on natural gas processing and distribution and pressure regulation rather than chemical reaction and product specifications, this direction is not recommended.

Stationary engineers and boiler operators | Produce the operation of boilers and steam and heating equipment and thermal systems: operate and monitor boilers and steam and power equipment with their pumps, valves and instruments, regulate combustion and water level and pressure and temperature and record

Has the ability to operate boiler and power systems and regulate thermal conditions

If you want to focus on gas processing and distribution rather than boiler and steam systems, this direction is not recommended.

Petroleum pump system operators and refinery gaugers | Produce refinery units and product pumping and metering: operate and control refinery units and product pumping systems, read and verify instruments and metering devices, sample and test and record product flow and quality data

Has the ability to operate refinery units and pump and meter products

If you want to focus on natural gas and gas processing rather than refining and product metering, this direction is not recommended.

Control and valve installers and repairers (non-mechanical category) | Produce the installation, calibration and repair of control and valve devices: install, calibrate and repair flow meters, control valves, safety valves, pressure regulators and actuators, read and verify instruments, check for leaks and operation and record

Has the ability to install, calibrate and repair control and valve devices

If you want to focus on unit operation and parameter adjustment rather than control and valve device installation and repair, this direction is not recommended.

RC can be used for occupational interest exploration; the editing observes reading units and periods and the method for checking original records and unknowns, and it is unverified that this predicts performance better than personality type.

Introversion neither automatically excludes nor guarantees suitability, and 51% continuous contact and similar figures are this occupation's context questionnaire; real anomaly communication, training and authority are verified separately.

The degree of extroversion is not a position threshold; for this occupation telephone 86, email 74, face-to-face 64% daily, and team extremely important 56% and very important 37%, and the questionnaire does not prove that extroversion improves performance.

This round obtained no material on MBTI type and competence validity for this occupation, so no best-fit type is given; actual training, experience and authority are verified separately.

In Holland interests, which type is better suited to this occupation? The interest code given by O*NET is RC: realistic (completing concrete operations and inspection at unit and equipment sites) and conventional (running equipment and handling data and records per procedures and standards); it can be used to explore task preferences, not to predict performance.

This round did not verify the validity of assessment scores against performance in this occupation; no hiring standard is set from scores, and G02 is only a deliverable method, not proof of validity.

Readings, units and calculations need checking; mixture ratio calculation is one of the 4 supplemental tasks and is not core for all staff. The G02 weighting is synthetic paper only, and real process calculations and recruitment math requirements are verified separately, and it is not asserted that advanced mathematics is universally unnecessary.

No high emotional intelligence or assessment score threshold is set; synthetic anomaly communication can be used for self-questioning, and actual shift environments and emergency training and authority are verified separately.

Can the Enneagram be used to judge whether I suit it? No. The Enneagram is a self-exploration tool and does not constitute a conclusion about occupational ability or fit; judging fit should look at whether one can accurately complete monitoring and adjustment and sampling and recording and safe work in highly automated and hazardous materials environments.

Independently work on the G02 original inputs, calculation differences and unknowns, and the X/V2 five errors and three independent counterexamples and four deliverables; no mentor or real equipment is needed, and it is not claimed to prove real competence better than a questionnaire.

Fit signals: willing to monitor equipment and read gauges and adjust and sample and test per procedure in outdoor and hazardous materials environments, able to monitor trends for long periods without ignoring small deviations and record them truthfully item by item, and to implement safety procedures and work permits and process safety requirements at every step.

Caution signals: hard to endure outdoor and hazardous materials environments and continuous shifts or long periods of trend monitoring, clearly uncomfortable with strict safety procedures and work permits and medical examination and operator qualification requirements, or unwilling to take responsibility and act per procedure in abnormal and emergency situations.

First do the paper check with G02, then verify the target recruitment's real equipment and process training, applicable health, qualifications, permits and authority; the exercise does not require prior contact with real units.

Used to check this occupation's task scope and work context (US occupational classification basis).

Used to check this occupation's tasks and work activities and detailed work activities.

Used to check the interest code and sub-interest areas given by O*NET.

Used to check the point-in-time estimate basis for US wages.

Used to check employment trends and official period presentation (US basis, not applicable to other jurisdictions).

Used to check the point-in-time estimate and percentile presentation of US wages.

Check 51-8092 direct EP2025—2035 employment 18.2→17.1 thousand, decline 6%, annual average 1.4 thousand, not the old ONET2024—2034.

Used to check this occupation's industry distribution and main employer types.

The six cards are editorial scenarios summarized from this occupation's tasks and context, not incidence rates or on-site operating instructions. Judgment and control and maintenance within authority follow the real procedures, anomalies are handled with applicable measures per the contingency plan, and out-of-authority and missing conditions are escalated; this article does not grant interlock bypass, work under pressure or unified shutdown and isolation steps.

Editorial risk summary | Check for failure of procedures and interlocks, process equipment, original quality records and material authority; the six cards are not an incidence or severity ranking, and PSM is verified per the covered process and OQ per covered tasks, and this page cannot approve specific operations.

This occupation's 15 core and 4 supplemental tasks and 57 context items support editorial risk identification, with error extremely serious 59% and very serious 25%, accuracy 52 extremely and 48 very, health 45 very high and 40 high; traditional highly automated 46 is not GenAI. PSM and OQ are first checked for the covered jurisdiction and scope, and wages and employment are not risk probabilities.

Frontline operating staff and duty supervisors; the institution and the crew and the safety of others

Failing to monitor pressure and liquid level per procedure or bypassing interlocks and protection, causing overpressure or leaks or equipment damage; may cause fire and explosion and poisoning or suffocation and environmental accidents, production stoppages and legal liability

Take applicable measures per the real operating emergency plan and report, and refuse unauthorized interlock bypass; do not judge from general passages that all anomalies require unified shutdown and isolation.

Scenario | During a night shift a unit's pressure gauge reading rises slowly and approaches the upper limit, the interlock alarm has operated several times, and the site is advised to bypass the interlock first to avoid frequent shutdowns.

Frontline operating staff and dispatch and maintenance positions; the institution and continuity of gas supply

Parameters stay deviated or liquid level or flow or concentration anomalies are not adjusted or reported in time, causing unit failure or gas supply interruption; unit damage and production stoppage and gas supply interruption and rising repair costs

Adjust equipment per the real procedures and record deviations and contact dispatch and maintenance; when parameters cannot be restored or anomalies worsen, take contingency measures within authority, and this card does not approve load reduction or shutdown.

Scenario | One compressor unit shows abnormal vibration and liquid level fluctuation, parameters stay deviated from set values, and the duty staff are asked to maintain gas supply first and arrange maintenance after the shift.

Frontline operating staff and testing and review personnel; the institution and downstream users

Errors in sampling or purity and water content testing or meter readings, or failing to review test results per procedure; gas quality and metering data are distorted, affecting delivery and safety judgments and quality traceability

Sample, test and review per the real procedures; keep the samples and original readings, retest and report concerns within authority, and correct errors per the rules by appending the basis rather than falsifying measurements.

Scenario | The sampling test results show water content close to the upper limit, and the site is advised to write a normal value in the record first so as not to affect the shift handover assessment.

Frontline operating staff and reviewers; the institution and safety and quality traceability

Untrue, missing or overwriting rewrites of original readings may distort traceability; a truthful correction that keeps the original version per the rules differs from forgery.

Keep the original inputs, unknowns and times; correct errors per the rules by appending the basis for correction and the version, and a truthful supplementation is not forgery or alteration, and missing measurements are not filled in.

Scenario | At the end of the shift the test results, the operating records and the meter readings are found to be inconsistent, and the staff are advised to fill in according to the report basis to avoid being questioned about the difference.

Frontline operating staff and safety and permit personnel; the institution and the safety of others

Performing hot work or entering confined spaces or working at heights without a work permit, or failing to do gas detection and isolation and monitoring and process safety analysis; may cause serious accidents such as fire and explosion or poisoning and suffocation or falls

Special task training and qualifications, permits, risk measures, isolation and monitoring are verified per the actual jurisdiction and duties; when conditions change, the corresponding work is stopped per the real process and re-verified, and general scenarios are not all treated as one certificate.

Scenario | Hot work is needed near a pressurized pipe section, the work permit and gas detection and monitoring and process safety analysis are not yet complete, and the site is asked to start work first to save time.

Frontline operating staff and safety and information positions; the institution and critical facilities

Sensitive information such as operation and tests and unit location and process conditions is leaked or used without authorization or provided externally; may affect critical infrastructure security and institutional commercial and safety information

Check the applicable law and the institution's classification for purpose, authority and retention, and external disclosure is verified separately; operating parameters are not automatically all PIPL personal sensitive data.

Scenario | On-site staff forward screenshots of unit locations and operating parameters and process conditions in an uncontrolled group chat.

Used to check this occupation's tasks and work context and to help identify the failure types in inspection and gauge reading and distribution and processing and pressure regulation and sampling and metering and safety steps (US basis).

Used to check the descriptions of this occupation's tasks and work activities and work environment.

Used to check the point-in-time estimate basis of US wages; the wage figures are not used for risk assessment.

Used to check the place of digital tools in records and monitoring and process control; mentioning a technology is not the same as the degree of automation.

Used to check governance and risk control principles when adopting digital tools; not a process safety or pressure equipment or metering standard.

BLS direct EP and education table 51-8092 typically high school or equivalent, no related work experience, long-term on-the-job training. O*NET Zone1–2 is a broad preparation group, and several days to one year cannot be treated as a fixed duration for this occupation; the newly hired education questionnaire shows 58% high school, 31% postsecondary certificate, 11% two-year degree, which is a US questionnaire distribution and not a Chinese requirement.

China's Work Safety Law Article 28 requires passing safety education and training and truthful training records, and Article 30 limits special qualifications to actual nationally defined special operations; no confined space, pressure equipment or gas site task is all judged under one certificate. Training, special qualifications, work permits, employer authority and applicable health conditions are verified separately.

US OSHA1910.119 applies according to the covered process, thresholds and exception judgments, and does not apply PSM to all positions by occupation name; its paragraph (f) requires real written operating procedures and responsibility for emergency shutdown conditions. The OQ in 49CFR192.801 applies only to covered tasks for pipeline facility operation and maintenance identified by the operator, required by Part192 and affecting operational integrity, not a uniform license for all gas plant employees.

Course certificates, special qualifications, work permits, employer authority and recruitment are verified separately; paper G02 does not give actual health or background qualification conclusions and does not guarantee pay or promotion.

Insufficient evidence: this round did not obtain representative Chinese recruitment channels, sample size, seasonality or staffing causality for this occupation; this page has no quantitative wage sample and does not infer actual hiring from the 41/31/28 industry shares.

Editorial check: record the announcement date and region, unit gas and tasks, long-term training, qualifications, permits and authority, applicable health, shifts, hours and income composition item by item, without setting a uniform requirement for all institutions.

The path is an editorial preparation direction, not automatic promotion; US typical education and long-term training and Chinese training and special qualifications and permits and authority are verified separately, and real working conditions follow the actual procedures.

Under mentorship, learn shift inspection and gauge reading and operating logs and sampling and test assistance and the key points of protection and work permits and process safety; do not independently take responsibility for parameter setting and anomaly handling and interlock operation.

Follow-up learning (inspection or assisted operation period)

Within authority, distribution and processing, parameter adjustment, test records and maintenance per procedure; handle and report anomalies per the real contingency plan.

Independent operations position

Can take on complex unit and multi-unit operation or dispatch collaboration and mentoring and emergency handling, and is responsible for operating parameters and safety and process safety and records and quality implementation.

Skilled and mentoring position

Participate in operation and process safety and emergency and permits and record retention and supervision, and handle complex and abnormal matters; corresponding position authority is required and safety and operating responsibility is borne.

Dispatch and safety support position

First do the paper check with G02, then verify the target recruitment education and experience and long-term equipment and process training, and complete safety training, special qualifications, permits and authority per the actual tasks. Skilled mentoring is an editorial stage and not automatic promotion; quality management and equipment assurance management are adjacent functions with separately verified appointment and authority.

Course certificates, special qualifications, applicable PSM and OQ, work permits and employer authority are verified separately, and G02 does not give on-site control or release authority.

Applicable jurisdiction: US typical long-term OJT; Chinese training, special qualifications, permits and authority are separate

Training and authority are obtained per the real duties; within authority, control, judgment and maintenance may be carried out, anomalies follow the contingency plan, and out-of-authority and insufficient conditions are escalated.

The O*NET summary for this occupation supports the tasks, preparation group and newly hired 58/31/11; the typical high school, no experience, long-term OJT comes from the BLS EP, not a fixed Zone period.

This occupation's training catalog is used to discover programs, not the tasks and context, typical training period or legal qualifications.

Used to check this occupation's certificate catalog and entry hints; a certificate catalog is not the same as institutional authority or operator qualification or regulatory permission.

This occupation's details support the 19 tasks, 15 core and 4 supplemental, and the context, but not direct EP; employment projections are taken from the BLS official table.

Institutional safety training records; basic unit and process and instrument and process safety training.

Follow a mentor to become familiar with each unit and valves and instruments and distribution and processing and handover process, and record daily learning points.

Records of inspection and gauge reading and operating log and review opinions; able to restate the key points of parameter excursions and isolation and reporting.

Under mentorship, take on shift inspection and gauge reading and operating log assistance and learn the key points of protection and work permits and process safety; do not independently take responsibility for parameter setting and anomaly handling and interlock operation.

Inspection and operation assistant position

Check the target's real position training and assessment and employer authority, applicable health conditions and multi-unit practice, not a nationwide unified certification.

Gain experience across different units and working conditions and shifts, and practice parameter deviation and anomaly handling.

Parameter adjustment and operating log and anomaly report records and review opinions.

Independently complete shift inspection and gauge reading and distribution and processing and parameter adjustment and start-up and shutdown and switching and recording, and handle anomalies and report per procedure.

Independent operations position

Corresponding position authority; mentoring and assessment records.

Learn complex working conditions and anomalies and emergency handling and process improvement.

Complex unit operation and mentoring and anomaly handling records.

Coordinate complex units and multi-unit operation and dispatch collaboration and mentoring, and be responsible for operating parameters and safety and process safety and records and quality implementation.

Skilled and mentoring position

Corresponding management seniority or institutional appointment.

Improve inspection and anomaly reporting and emergency plans and training mechanisms.

Records of operation and process safety and anomalies and compliance handling.

Participate in operation and process safety and emergency and permits and record retention and supervision, handle complex and abnormal matters and guide newcomers.

Dispatch and process safety support position

Editorial preparation | Corresponding testing or maintenance and safety training; authority over anomalies, quality release, repair and replacement and trial runs follows the real duties and employer authority, and special qualifications and permits are verified separately.

Be familiar with the requirements for sampling and purity and water content testing and readings and review.

Ledger, sampling and test records and how they were reviewed.

Responsible for assisting with organizing sampling and test and ledger materials and maintaining records.

Adjacent function exploration: sampling and testing assistant position

Institutional authority and related training; multi-shift practice experience.

Learn the requirements for determining gas quality and moisture and impurities and data traceability and quality release.

Records of sampling and testing and readings and discrepancies and anomalies.

Take on sampling per procedure and chemical and physical testing and reading registration and result review and discrepancy and anomaly reporting.

Adjacent function exploration: sampling and testing execution position

Corresponding management seniority or institutional appointment.

Improve system, review, training and audit mechanisms.

Quality and record conclusions; system, training and audit records.

Responsible for sampling and testing and quality and data and the record system and record retention and training, setting standards and coordinating internal and external matters.

Adjacent function exploration: head of quality and records

Corresponding management appointment or institutional authority.

Improve system, data, emergency, assessment and training mechanisms.

Coordination conclusions; system, performance, emergency and training documents.

Coordinate quality and records and operation and external communication, and handle complex and disputed matters.

Adjacent function exploration: institutional quality and records coordination position

Editorial preparation | Corresponding testing or maintenance and safety training; authority over anomalies, quality release, repair and replacement and trial runs follows the real duties and employer authority, and special qualifications and permits are verified separately.

Be familiar with the requirements for equipment maintenance and replacement and trial runs and isolation and lockout and tagout.

Ledger, maintenance and count records and how they were reviewed.

Responsible for assisting with cleaning, lubrication, consumables and tool counts and maintenance materials and ledger maintenance.

Adjacent function exploration: maintenance and housekeeping assistant position

Institutional authority and related training; multi-equipment practice experience.

Learn the basics of mechanical and electrical and instrumentation work and repair and trial runs and safety isolation requirements.

Records of maintenance and replacement and discrepancies and anomalies.

This occupation's core tasks allow cleaning, maintenance and repair with hand tools or requesting repair; specific equipment measures are defined by the real procedures and authority, and the previous occupation's filter and gasket list is not copied.

Adjacent function exploration: maintenance execution position

Corresponding management seniority or institutional appointment.

Improve system, preventive maintenance, equipment integrity management, training and audit mechanisms.

Equipment assurance conclusions; system, training and audit records.

Responsible for equipment maintenance and spare parts and tools and unit assurance and safety and the process safety system and record retention and training, setting standards and coordinating internal and external matters.

Adjacent function exploration: head of equipment and unit assurance

Corresponding management appointment or institutional authority.

Improve system, data, emergency, assessment and training mechanisms.

Coordination conclusions; system, performance, emergency and training documents.

Coordinate equipment and unit assurance and operation and external communication, and handle complex and disputed matters.

Adjacent function exploration: institutional equipment and assurance coordination position

2025 US national 51-8092 annual wages at the 10/25/50/75/90 percentiles are 61,350/76,870/87,820/100,870/115,520 USD; the corresponding hourly rates 29.50/36.96/42.22/48.49/55.54 USD were re-verified this round on the national wage page. The median is not a starting wage, and percentiles are not seniority or duty causality, and individual take-home pay cannot be derived at 2,080 hours. BLS direct EP51-8092: 2025 employment 18.2 thousand → 2035 projected 17.1 thousand, published net decrease 1.1 thousand, decline 6.0%, annual average openings 1.4 thousand (1,400); the self-employed column has a dash and is not treated as 0%. Openings include transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring, and the change rate is not back-calculated from the rounded employment. Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist.

United States

2025—2035

Direct EP decline 6%, with annual average 1.4 thousand still existing; no GenAI causality or individual unemployment is inferred.

The direct EP self-employed dash is not treated as 0%; projections and OEWS have different scopes and are not actual hiring.

Employment scale, growth and job openings

SOC51-8092 (BLS direct EP)

BLS direct EP51-8092: 2025 employment 18.2 thousand → 2035 projected 17.1 thousand, published net decrease 1.1 thousand, decline 6.0%, annual average openings 1.4 thousand (1,400); the self-employed column has a dash and is not treated as 0%. Openings include transfers out and exits, not net new additions, a ten-year total or real hiring, and the change rate is not back-calculated from the rounded employment.

United States

2025

The 2025 national percentiles and CA's 130,220 annual median and 62.61 hourly are verified separately, and do not substitute for the national figure or imply unit, shift or seniority causality; wages for other regions and the four industries were not obtained.

OEWS covers full and part-time employees, tips, commissions and production bonuses; it excludes the self-employed, benefits, overtime premium, shift differentials and non-production bonuses. Shift positions are not automatically excluded, and wages and EP employment have different scopes.

Wages (median and percentiles)

SOC 51-8092.00 (OEWS May 2025, presented via O*NET)

Median hourly wage 42.22 USD, median annual wage 87,820 USD; 10th percentile 61,350, 25th percentile 76,870, 75th percentile 100,870, 90th percentile 115,520 (USD/year)

Mainland China

2025

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist.

The legal environment and statistical basis differ, so no splicing or conversion is done; the China section of this page registers only the statistical basis and visible gaps.

Occupational wages and employment (statistical basis and gaps)

National Bureau of Statistics average wages of urban unit employees (industry category basis) and bounded searches

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist.

This occupation's national and state distributions do not imply individual income or regional causality.

A 51-8092 decline of 6 and an annual average of 1400 are not net growth, real hiring or GenAI causality.

Major group averages do not map directly to precise occupational wages.

The current 44/31/25 has no reference year and is not wages or hiring.

Need to add pipeline compressor station and pumping station and pipeline pressure and compression and pumping experience

Transferable basis to explore | Unit operation and parameter monitoring and recording and safety and protection; verify your own experience, which does not equal complete target process skills or mutual recognition of qualifications.

Editorial judgment: the target conditions must be independently made up

Need to add knowledge of chemical reaction and separation processes and product specifications and explosion protection and toxic media

Transferable basis to explore | Unit operation and parameter monitoring and safety and recording; verify your own experience, which does not equal complete target process skills or mutual recognition of qualifications.

Editorial judgment: the target conditions must be independently made up

Need to add knowledge of boilers and steam and power systems and thermal regulation

Transferable basis to explore | Equipment operation and parameter monitoring and safety and recording; verify your own experience, which does not equal complete target process skills or mutual recognition of qualifications.

Editorial judgment: the target conditions must be independently made up

Need to add knowledge of refinery units and product pumping and metering

Transferable basis to explore | Equipment operation and parameter monitoring and safety and recording; verify your own experience, which does not equal complete target process skills or mutual recognition of qualifications.

Editorial judgment: the target conditions must be independently made up

Need to add control and valve device installation and calibration and verification capability

Transferable basis to explore | Valve and instrument and control awareness and safety and recording; verify your own experience, which does not equal complete target process skills or mutual recognition of qualifications.

Editorial judgment: the target conditions must be independently made up

Need to add knowledge of water treatment processes and water quality and chemicals and equipment operation

Transferable basis to explore | Equipment operation and parameter monitoring and safety and recording; verify your own experience, which does not equal complete target process skills or mutual recognition of qualifications.

Editorial judgment: the target conditions must be independently made up

Need to add knowledge of power generation and generation and distribution equipment operation

Transferable basis to explore | Equipment operation and parameter monitoring and safety and recording; verify your own experience, which does not equal complete target process skills or mutual recognition of qualifications.

Editorial judgment: the target conditions must be independently made up

Need to add oil and gas operations crew and workover and gathering operations experience

Transferable basis to explore | Equipment operation and safety and recording and collaboration; verify your own experience, which does not equal complete target process skills or mutual recognition of qualifications.

Editorial judgment: the target conditions must be independently made up

Research scope: this round read this occupation's ONET19 tasks, 57 context items, 11 software items and the newly hired 58/31/11, national 2025 wages, BLS direct EP and education, OSHA coverage and procedures, OQ covered tasks and China's Work Safety Law Articles 28 and 30; the public OEWS method, NBS enterprise summaries and PIPL/ILO/NIST follow the scope already verified in this batch, and it is not claimed that everything was re-checked this round.

Source cards | This page registers 51-8092's O*NET tasks, context, interests, software and the current year-less industry shares 44/31/25 (old registration protected pending review), 2025 national OEWS wages, BLS direct EP2025—2035 and typical education and long-term on-the-job training; the old O*NET2024—2034 is only distinguished historically. China's NBS industry and five job groups and enterprise pay summaries do not map to precise SOC; the Work Safety Law Articles 28 and 30, the Personal Information Protection Law and the competent portals are separately marked as actual regulations or search entry points. US OSHA1910.119 only verifies the covered process and operating procedures, and 49CFR192.801 only verifies the scope of covered tasks. The ILO2025 Working Paper140 summary is used for general task exposure boundaries, and NIST for general AI governance, neither of which is a quantified adoption or causal finding for this occupation. The adjacent 53-7071 and 51-8091, the classification database, the certificate catalog and the internal basis rules each have their use marked, and the original source_refs are stably retained.

This round, on 2026-10-03, re-verified material: wages 2025, direct EP and education 2025—2035/2025, industry ONET2024, with the old ONET2024—2034 for historical comparison only. Regulations and jurisdiction coverage are each verified, and legal provisions are not assumed from a portal.

Insufficient evidence: this round and the bounded searches already on this page obtained no national, city-level or employment-form wages and employment for mainland China that precisely correspond to 51-8092; NBS industry and the five major job groups, and enterprise pay summaries, cannot be directly mapped, industry averages, recruitment quotes or US figures are not used to fill in, and this does not prove that other national statistics do not exist. The four industries and other regional wages, income causality, GenAI quantification and assessment validity for this occupation, and representative hiring were not obtained within the bounded search, and are disclosed in their native blocks, which does not prove nonexistence. This round CA's 130,220 annual median and 62.61 hourly have been verified; the current industry44/31/25 has no year, and the old 2024 registration is protected pending review.