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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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