chemical engineering technician
ISCO: 3116. Skills: 55. Essential: 24.
Essential skills
- analyse experimental laboratory data
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- chemistry
- collaborate with engineers
- determine production feasibility
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- green chemistry
- laboratory techniques
- oxidation
- perform laboratory tests
- perform product testing
- prepare chemical samples
- production processes
- quality assurance methodologies
- risk management
- run laboratory simulations
- test chemical samples
- translate formulae into processes
- use ICT systems
- work safely with chemicals
Supporting skills
- analyse production processes for improvement
- analytical chemistry
- archive scientific documentation
- assess hydrogen production technologies
- communicate with external laboratories
- computational chemistry
- control production
- corrosion types
- develop components separation processes
- dispose of hazardous waste
- energy efficiency
- execute feasibility study on hydrogen
- hazardous waste storage
- hazardous waste types
- identify hazards in the workplace
- inorganic chemistry
- keep records of work progress
- maintain chromotography machinery
- maintain laboratory equipment
- maintain nuclear reactors
- manage health and safety standards
- nuclear energy
- nuclear reprocessing
- radiation protection
- recognise signs of corrosion
- recommend product improvements
- schedule production
- set production facilities standards
- supervise laboratory operations
- use chromatography software
- write batch record documentation