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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 “Pyrotechnist”

Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.
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.
Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
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.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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