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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 Tester (Lab Tester)”

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.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.
Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.
Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.
Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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