Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 1991

• J - Occupations Unique to Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities
• J1 - Machine Operators in Manufacturing
• J11 - Central Control and Process Operators in Manufacturing and Processing

J111 - Central Control and Process Operators, Mineral and Metal Processing

Occupations in this unit group are primarily concerned with operating and monitoring multifunction machinery in mineral and metal processing usually by working at automated or computerized panelboards in a central control room. Operators in this unit group operate or control processes such as cement processing; mineral ore crushing, grinding, separating and refining; and metal heating, casting and rolling.

• Example Titles

  • Blast-furnace operator, central control
  • Caster, metal processing
  • Central control operator, cement
  • Clay products kiln operator
  • Cold-mill operator, central control
  • Console operator, cement
  • Continuous casting controlman / woman
  • Continuous-casting-machine operator
  • Control room operator, mineral and metal processing
  • Crusher control room operator, primary steel
  • First furnaceman / woman, central control
  • Furnace operator, primary metal, central control
  • Grinder-mill operator, primary metal
  • Head charger, primary metal
  • Hot roller, primary metal
  • Hot-mill roller, primary metal
  • Hot-steel roller
  • Kiln process control operator, mineral and metal processin
  • Lead-furnace operator, primary metal, central control
  • Mill-control operator, primary metal
  • Open-hearth-furnace operator, primary metal, central contr
  • Panelboard operator, mineral and metal processing
  • Pig-furnace operator, primary metal, central control
  • Pulpit man, iron and steel
  • Pulpit operator, primary metal
  • Reduction-furnace operator, metal smelting, central contro
  • Retort-furnace operator, primary metal, central control
  • Roaster operator, mineral and metal processing
  • Roller, billet mill
  • Roller, blooming mill
  • Rolling mill operator
  • Rotary-furnace operator, primary metal, central control
  • Slabbing-mill roller
  • Soaking pit operator, mineral and metal processing
  • Strand operator, mineral and metal processing
  • Tilting-furnace operator, primary metal, central control

• Exclusion

  • Occupations concerned with supervising mineral and metal processing workers (See J011 Supervisors, Mineral and Metal Processing)
  • Operators of single function machinery in mineral and metal processing (See J121 Machine Operators, Mineral and Metal Processing)