Job Profile Detail
Chemical engineers research, design, and develop chemical processes and equipment, oversee the operation and maintenance of industrial chemical, plastics, pharmaceutical, resource, pulp and paper, and food processing plants and perform duties related to chemical quality control, environmental protection and biochemical or biotechnical engineering. They are employed in a wide range of manufacturing and processing industries, consulting firms, government, research and educational institutions.
Job Titles
- Adhesives engineer
- Biochemical and biotechnical engineer
- Biochemical development engineer
- Biochemical engineer
- Biotechnical engineer
- Biotechnology engineer
- Chemical coating engineer
- Chemical engineer
- Chemical process control engineer
- Chemical process engineer
- Chemical project engineer
- Chief chemical engineer
- Chief process engineer
- Design and development chemical engineer
- Electrochemical engineer
- Environmental chemical engineer
- Explosives engineer
- Fuels engineer
- Industrial hygiene engineer
- Industrial waste treatment engineer
- Liquid fuels engineer
- Petrochemical engineer
- Petroleum refinery process engineer
- Pipeline transport engineer
- Plastics engineer
- Polymer engineer
- Production chemical engineer
- Pulp and paper chemical engineer
- Pulp and paper engineer
- Refinery engineer
- Research chemical engineer
- Waste treatment engineer
Job Duties
1. Develop safety procedures to be employed by workers operating equipment or working in close proximity to on-going chemical reactions.
2. Determine most effective arrangement of operations, such as mixing, crushing, heat transfer, distillation, and drying.
3. Prepare estimate of production costs and production progress reports for management.
4. Direct activities of workers who operate or who are engaged in constructing and improving absorption, evaporation, or electromagnetic equipment.
5. Perform laboratory studies of steps in manufacture of new product and test proposed process in small scale operation (pilot plant).
6. Develop processes to separate components of liquids or gases or generate electrical currents, using controlled chemical processes.
7. Conduct research to develop new and improved chemical manufacturing processes.
8. Design measurement and control systems for chemical plants based on data collected in laboratory experiments and in pilot plant operations.
Education Requirement
1. A bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or in a related engineering discipline is required.
2. A master's degree or doctorate in a related engineering discipline may be required.
3. Licensing by a provincial or territorial association of professional engineers is required to approve engineering drawings and reports and to practise as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.).
4. Engineers are eligible for registration following graduation from an accredited educational program, and after three or four years of supervised work experience in engineering and passing a professional practice examination.
4 to 8 years experience required 
66,315 CAD to 98,670 CAD P.A. 
Canada
