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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 “Cloth Tester”

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.
Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
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.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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