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School Subject: Chemistry

  • Aquaculture Operators and Managers

    Legacy duties

    • Manage the overall operation of a fish hatchery, fish farm or other aquatic farm
    • Identify requirements of the species and select and oversee preparation of site for species cultivation
    • Co-ordinate selection and maintenance of brood stock
    • Determine food requirements and structure feeding regimes
    • Monitor environment and maintain optimum conditions
    • Conduct and supervise stock examination to identify disease or parasites, and apply prescribed medicinal substances to control and prevent infection
    • Operate and maintain cultivating and harvesting equipment
    • Collect and record growth and production data
    • Supervise and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers and supervise technicians and technologists
    • Maintain financial records and establish market strategies, inventory and quality control methods
    • Scuba dive to inspect sea farm operations
    • Design and construct pens, floating stations and collector strings or fences for sea farms.

  • Agricultural and Related Service Contractors and Managers

    Legacy duties

    • Manage businesses which provide an agricultural livestock service such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
    • Manage businesses which provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
    • Hire and train workers
    • Negotiate with farmers and farm managers regarding the services to be provided
    • Maintain financial and operational records
    • May participate in the provision of the service or in the operation of machinery and equipment.

  • Radiological Technologist

    Legacy duties

    • Operate X-ray, radiographic and fluoroscopic equipment, computerized tomography (CT) scanners, mammography units and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners to produce radiographs or anatomic images of the human body for the diagnosis by radiologists of disease or injury
    • Record and process patient data
    • Perform basic verification and quality control checks on radiographic and film processing equipment
    • Provide appropriate care for the patient during the radiographic examination
    • Apply radiation protection measures
    • May train and supervise student radiographers or supervise other radiological technologists.
    • Radiological technologists may specialize in areas such as computerized tomography, angiography, mammography, magnetic resonance imaging, interventional radiology, dosimetry, stereotaxy or brachytherapy.

  • Clinical Perfusionist

    Legacy duties

    • Assemble, maintain and operate extracorporeal circulation equipment, intra-aortic balloon pumps and other heart assist devices to support or temporarily replace patients' cardiopulmonary functions during open-heart surgery
    • Administer blood products, drugs and other substances through heart-lung machines and other devices as directed by cardiac surgeons and anaesthetists
    • Monitor vital signs to maintain patients' physiological functions during cardiopulmonary surgery
    • Supervise and train student clinical perfusionists and other clinical perfusionists.

  • Head Nurses and Supervisors

    Legacy duties

    • Supervise registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and other nursing personnel
    • Evaluate patients' needs and ensure that required nursing care is delivered
    • Set up and co-ordinate nursing services in conjunction with other health services
    • Ensure quality nursing care is provided and appropriate administrative procedures are followed
    • Assist in the establishment of unit policies and procedures
    • Administer nursing unit budget and ensure that supplies and equipment are available
    • Assist in the selection, evaluation and professional development of nursing personnel
    • Collaborate on research projects related to nursing and medical care and multidisciplinary services
    • May provide direct patient care.

  • Industrial Pharmacists

    Legacy duties

    • Participate in basic research for the development of new drugs
    • Formulate new drug products developed by medical researchers
    • Test new drug products for stability and to determine their absorption and elimination patterns
    • Co-ordinate clinical investigations of new drugs
    • Control the quality of drug products during production to ensure that they meet standards of potency, purity, uniformity, stability and safety
    • Develop information materials concerning the uses, properties and risks of particular drugs
    • Evaluate labelling, packaging and advertising of drug products
    • Promote pharmaceutical products to health professionals.

  • Community Pharmacists

    Legacy duties

    • Check prescriptions for proper dosage
    • Compound prescribed pharmaceutical products by calculating, measuring and mixing the quantities of drugs and other ingredients required and filling appropriate containers with correct quantity
    • Dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to customers or to other health care professionals and advise them on indications, contra-indications, adverse effects, drug interactions and dosage
    • Maintain medication profiles of customers including registry of poisons and narcotic and controlled drugs
    • Ensure proper preparation, packaging, distribution and storage of vaccines, serums, biologicals and other drugs and pharmaceuticals
    • Order and maintain stock of pharmaceutical supplies
    • Advise customers on selection and use of non-prescription medication
    • May supervise and co-ordinate the activities of other pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians and other staff.

  • Mechanical Engineering Technicians

    Legacy duties

    • Assist in preparing conventional and computer-assisted design (CAD) engineering designs, drawings and specifications
    • Carry out a limited range of mechanical tests and analyses of machines, components and materials
    • Assist in the design of moulds, tools, dies, jigs and fixtures for use in manufacturing processes
    • Assist in inspection of mechanical installations and construction projects
    • Participate in the installation, repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment.

  • Chemical Technologists

    Legacy duties

    • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests and analyses using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical and chemical separation techniques and microscopy
    • Operate and maintain laboratory equipment and apparatus and prepare solutions of gas or liquid, reagents, and sample formulations
    • Compile records and interpret experimental or analytical results
    • Develop and conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates and products
    • Assist in the development of chemical engineering processes, studies of chemical engineering procurement, construction, inspection and maintenance and the development of standards, procedures and health and safety measures
    • Operate experimental chemical or petrochemical pilot plants
    • Conduct or assist in air and water quality testing and assessments, environmental monitoring and protection activities, and development of and compliance with standards
    • Assist in synthesis of small molecules for the purpose of creating drug candidates.
    • Assist in the design and fabrication of experimental apparatus.

  • Mining Engineers

    Legacy duties

    • Conduct preliminary surveys and studies of ore, mineral or coal deposits to assess the economic and environmental feasibility of potential mining operations
    • Determine the appropriate means of safely and efficiently mining deposits
    • Determine and advise on appropriate drilling and blasting methods for mining, construction or demolition
    • Design shafts, ventilation systems, mine services, haulage systems and supporting structures
    • Design, develop and implement computer applications such as for mine design, mine modelling, mapping or for monitoring mine conditions
    • Plan and design or select mining equipment and machinery and mineral treatment machinery and equipment in collaboration with other engineering specialists
    • Plan, organize and supervise the development of mines and mine structures and the operation and maintenance of mines
    • Prepare operations and project estimates, schedules and reports
    • Implement and co-ordinate mine safety programs
    • Supervise and co-ordinate the work of technicians, technologists, survey personnel, and other engineers and scientists.