Engineering technicians
Chemical plant operator
Key facts
This job is declining in the United States. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, moderate according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: −1.2% (BLS). Future-proof jobs use similar skills: see "What next?".
The job
Chemical processing plant controllers (ISCO 3133). Chemical processing plant controllers operate and monitor chemical plants and related multi-function process control machinery, and adjust and maintain processing units and equipment which distil, filter, separate, heat or refine chemicals.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
56 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- air separation plant operative
- air separation plant operator
- air separation plant production operative
- air separation plant production operator
- air separation plant production worker
- air separation plant worker
- anaerobic digester technician
- biogas equipment maintenance technician
- biogas equipment technician
- biogas generation technician
- biogas production technician
- biogas technician
- biomass gas generation technician
- biomass plant technician
- butadiene compressor operator
- butane compressor operator
- CCTV control room operator
- chemical operator
- chemical plant and system operator
- chemical plant and systems monitor
- chemical plant and systems monitoring technician
- chemical plant and systems operator
- chemical plant control room operator
- chemical plant operations technician
- chemical plant operator
- chemical plant process operator
- chemical plant systems technician
- chemical processing plant controller
- closed-circuit television control room operator
- control room attendant
- downstream gas processing controller
- ethylene compressor operator
- gas compressor and gas pumping station operative
- gas compressor and gas pumping station operator
- gas compressor controller
- gas compressor station operator
- gas processing controller
- gas processing maintenance controller
- gas processing performance controller
- gas processing plant supervisor
- gas processing quality controller
- gas processing safety controller
- gas production controller
- gas pumping station operative
- gas pumping station operator
- gas station operator
- gas-compressor operative
- gas-compressor operator
- landfill gas plant technician
- manufacturing control room operator
- oxygen gas plant operator
- oxygen plant operator
- panel board operator
- process plant operator
- production control room operator
- production monitor
What next?
Future-proof jobs that draw on skills close to this one. They are leads to explore, not an assessment of your profile.
- ChangingHealth and safety technician
- ChangingChemical process technician
- ChangingIndustrial maintenance technician
Indicative matches: at launch they will come from the skills listed in official occupational directories.
Gauges
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.