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Job Description

Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-4031.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 49,770.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 23.00
Currently, there are 65,510 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Chemical Technicians”.

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Tasks for “Perfumer”

Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.
Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

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Personal computers
Lecture bottles
Glass laboratory crucibles
Diffusion pumps
Agitation tanks
Ruby lasers
Hollow cathode lamps
Rotameters
Magnetic stirring bars
Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
Infrared IR spectroscopes
Vacuum gauges
Gravitational field indicators
Infrared lamps
Automatic pipette cleaners
Hirsch funnels
Chromatography developing tanks
Transfer pipettes
Photomultiplier tubes
Rheometers
Nebulizers
Multimeters
Finger pumps
Utility clamps
Velometers
Benchtop centrifuges
Cooling baths
Automatic buret cleaners
Monochromators
Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
Plastic cuvettes
Vapor monitor badges
Desktop computers
Westphal balances
Ultraviolet UV light detectors
Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
Constant temperature water baths
Gooch crucibles
Atomic emissions spectroscopes
Liquid chromatography equipment
Mainframe computers
Lyophilizers
Optical compound microscopes
Aneroid barometers
Mercury barometers
Electronic toploading balances
Automated polarimeters
Geiger-Muller counters
Safety goggles
Claisen flasks
Drying pistols
Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
Reflux condensers
Pull spring balances
Closed-end manometers
Laminar flow burners
Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
Liquid-filled remote thermometers
Turbidimeters
Thermal conductivity detectors
Laboratory vacuum pumps
Meker burners
Asbestos gloves
Gas chromatography equipment
Organic carbon analyzers
Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
Filter pumps
Titrators
Steam baths
Mercury vapor lamps
Digital handheld thermometers
Polarizers
Canister gas masks
Computer-controlled pumps
Bell jars
Dye lasers
Laboratory flasks
Triple beam balances
Cork borer sets
Vacuum flask traps
Homogenizers
Lasers
McLeod gauges
Automatic burets
Differential scanning calorimeters
Hot air blowers
Beckmann thermometers
Laboratory heating plates
Immersion heaters
Dessicators
Gas drying tubes
Distilling condensers
Fire extinguishers
Fluorimeters
Molecular stills
Single-pan balances
Buchner funnels
Laboratory balances
Bubble flow meters
Refrigerated coolers
Gas burners
Volumetric flasks
Torsion balances
Optical beamsplitting devices
Graphite furnaces
Laboratory drying ovens
Differential refractometers
Glass burets
Optical pyrometers
Pycnometers
Bubble-cap fractionating columns
Sample crushers
Flame ionization detectors FID
Autotitrators
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Hydrometers
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High pressure sodium lamps
Face shields
Bunsen burners
Graphing calculators
Automated microviscometers
Perchloric acid hoods
Pressure gauges
Eyewash fountains
Dissolved oxygen meters
Photo detectors
Rotary evaporators
U-tube manometers
Heating mantles
Comparators
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Safety gloves
Pirani gauges
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Laboratory blenders
pH indicators
Viscosity meters
High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
Cartesian manostats
Liquid transfer pumps
Chromatography microsyringes
Ultraviolet UV lamps
Test tube clamps
Exhaust hoods
Explosion-proof fume hoods
Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
Muffle furnaces
Radioisotope fume hoods
Volumetric glass pipettes
Deuterium lamps
Bourdon gauges
Evaporating dishes
Fluid scintillation counters
Ammeters
Safety showers
Gas leak detectors
Laboratory tongs
Abbe refractometers
Ultracentrifuges
Water aspirators
Glass tubing
Unequal-arm balances
Spectrophotometers
Thermocouples
Safety glasses
Radiation detectors
Ion exchange chromatography equipment
Mass spectrometers
Evaporator rotators
Capillary tubing
Ball mills
Laboratory pressing equipment
Volume displacement pumps
Metering pumps
Mortars and pestles
Ionization gauges
Prisms
Photocells
Hazardous material protective clothing
Coulometers
Laboratory centrifugal pumps

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