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School Subject: Chemistry

  • Chemical Technicians

    Legacy duties

    • Assist in setting up and conducting chemical experiments, tests and analyses
    • Operate and maintain laboratory equipment and apparatus and prepare solutions of gas and liquid, reagents and sample formulations
    • Compile records for analytical studies
    • Assist in developing and conducting programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards
    • Carry out a limited range of other technical functions in support of chemical research, tests and analyses, and environmental air and water quality monitoring and protection
    • Assist in the design and fabrication of experimental apparatus.

  • Civil Engineering Technicians

    Legacy duties

    • Assist in developing engineering specifications and drawings
    • Participate in field surveys, inspections or technical investigations of topography, soils, drainage and water supply systems, road and highway systems, buildings and structures to provide data for engineering projects
    • Perform other technical functions in support of civil engineering activities.

  • Chemical Engineers

    Legacy duties

    • Conduct economic and technical feasibility studies in areas related to chemical, petroleum, pulp and paper, food or other processing industries
    • Conduct research into the development or improvement of chemical engineering processes, reactions and materials
    • Evaluate chemical process technology and equipment and determine production specifications
    • Design and test chemical processing and associated plants and equipment
    • Oversee the construction, modification, operation and maintenance of pilot plants, processing units or processing plants
    • Establish and conduct quality control programs, operating procedures and control strategies to ensure consistency and adherence to standards for raw materials, products and waste products or emissions
    • Prepare contract documents and evaluate tenders for the process aspects of industrial construction
    • Supervise technicians, technologists and other engineers
    • May work in an administrative capacity, for example, in the development of guidelines and specifications for the handling of dangerous chemicals, environmental protection, or standards for foods, materials and consumer goods.
    • Chemical engineers may specialize in the products and processes of a particular industry such as pulp and paper manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, petroleum refining, energy processing, plastics, metal extraction and refining, or adhesives and coatings production. They may also specialize in areas that are in various industries such as process control, pollution control or fermentation processes.

  • Civil Engineering Technologists

    Legacy duties

    • Develop engineering designs and drawings from preliminary concepts and sketches
    • Prepare construction specifications, cost and material estimates, project schedules and reports
    • Supervise or conduct field surveys, inspections or technical investigations of topography, soils, drainage and water supply systems, road and highway systems, buildings and structures to provide data for engineering projects
    • Conduct or supervise inspection and testing of construction materials
    • May supervise, monitor and inspect construction projects.

  • Chemists

    Legacy duties

    • Analyze, synthesize, purify, modify and characterize chemical or biochemical compounds
    • Develop and conduct programs of analysis to ensure quality control of raw materials, chemical intermediates or final products
    • Conduct programs of sample and data collection and analysis to identify and quantify environmental toxicants
    • Conduct research to develop new chemical formulations and processes and devise new technical applications of industrial chemicals and compounds
    • Conduct research to discover, develop and refine, and evaluate new products
    • Conduct fundamental and applied research into the synthesis and properties of chemical compounds and the mechanisms of chemical reactions
    • Investigate chemical aspects of the mechanisms of drug action, the diagnosis and treatment of disease, organ function and the assessment of health
    • Participate in interdisciplinary research and development projects working with chemical engineers, biologists, microbiologists, agronomists, geologists or other professionals
    • Act as technical consultant in a particular field of expertise
    • May participate in the commercialization of new products
    • May supervise other chemists and chemical technicians and technologists.

  • Astronomers

    Legacy duties

    • Design and conduct observational surveys, conduct detailed analyses and develop numerical models to extend knowledge of celestial bodies and cosmic radiation
    • Develop or participate in the development of instrumentation and software for astronomical observation and analysis.
    • Astronomers may specialize in fields such as astrophysics, observational or optical astronomy and radio astronomy.

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  • Aerospace Engineers