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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

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Tasks for “Chemical Technicians”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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