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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 “Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)”

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.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
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.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
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.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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