The phrase "as he operates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions or behaviors occurring simultaneously with someone performing a task or function.
Example: "The technician explained the process as he operates the machinery, ensuring everyone understands the steps involved."
Alternatives: "while he works" or "as he functions".
Two miles up the hill at the hospital at the University of California, San Francisco, a lung surgeon wears Glass to assist him as he operates.
As he operates behind the scenes, Mr. Caputo, 48, has become an indispensable coach to Mr. Paladino, who likes to say that he is still learning to be a politician.
Now, as he operates in the enclosed universe of Russian state media, in a moment of resentful nationalism encouraged at the highest level, the nightingale sings a mainstream tune.
December > "ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: THE SILKSCREEN PAINTINGS, 1962-1964". An especially important phase in this artist's multifaceted career, which introduces an influential painting technique as he operates in the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
He is wearing only his physical fitness shorts as he operates a washing machine, vainly trying to wash the grit of Iraq from his uniform, a few days before the marines attack Falluja in November of 2004.
She asked her class: "Does the doctor see love, goodness, trust and happiness as he operates on the human heart?" "No," replied the class.
At times he worked 15-hour days, seldom seeing his wife and two children as he operated the club and even slept there.
Manuel Ortero, 25, a construction worker, was baggy-eyed and wearing a 5 o'clock shadow as he operated a hydraulic jack in Brooklyn Heights.
Ousterhout liked to listen to a classical radio station as he operated, and as he was finishing the procedure his favorite piece of music, Wagner's "The Flight of the Valkyries," came on — an auspicious conclusion to his surgical career.
Orchestral musicians have been known to roll their eyes at outré fare, but here they were fully engaged: Shmidt had a look of delightfully solemn concentration as he operated a turntable in the Cage.
He played two of his most common pieces, "The Healers" and "African Cookbook," and as he operated in a continuing clash with the Senegalese kora player Abdou M'Boup, the music itself seemed to disprove the concert's theory.
