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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 “Criminalist”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

Database software
Microsoft Office
SAP
Microsoft Word
Email software
Spreadsheet software
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Laboratory information management system LIMS
Word processing software