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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 “Colorist Formulator”

Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.
Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.
Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
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.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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