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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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