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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 “Dye Expert”

Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
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.
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.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
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.
Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Microsoft PowerPoint
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Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
Laboratory information management system LIMS
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