Chemical Technicians

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
• 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.
• Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
• Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
• Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
• Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
• Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
• 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.
• Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.
• Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
• Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
• Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
• Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)