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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 “Dry Color Tester”

Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.
Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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