Tend auxiliary equipment such as water treatment and refrigeration units, and heat exchangers.

“Tend auxiliary equipment such as water treatment and refrigeration units, and heat exchangers.” is a supplemental task performed by Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers. Among the occupation's 14 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#10 most important). About 48% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Monitor equipment operation. in Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary. · importance 4.5
• Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times. · importance 4.4
• Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage. · importance 4.4
• Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances. · importance 4.3
• Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials. · importance 4.3
• Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools. · importance 4.2
• Tend vessels that store substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials, checking levels of substances by using calibrated rods or by reading mercury gauges and tank charts. · importance 4.2
• Clean, lubricate, and repair pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment. · importance 4.2
• Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders to determine amounts to be pumped. · importance 4.0
• Collect and deliver sample solutions for laboratory analysis. · importance 4.0
• Add chemicals and solutions to tanks to ensure that specifications are met. · importance 4.0
• Pump two or more materials into one tank to blend mixtures. · importance 3.9
• Test materials and solutions, using testing equipment. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-14619,
  title  = {Tend auxiliary equipment such as water treatment and refrigeration units, and heat exchangers.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-14619}
}