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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 “Senior Laboratory Technician (Senior Lab Technician)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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