Job Profile Detail
Chemical technologists and technicians provide technical support and services or may work independently in chemical engineering, chemical and biochemical research and analysis, industrial chemistry, chemical quality control and environmental protection. They are employed by research and development and quality control laboratories, consulting engineering companies, in chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and a variety of other manufacturing and processing industries, and by utilities, health, educational and government establishments.
Job Titles
- Analytical chemistry technician
- Analytical chemistry technologist
- Biochemistry laboratory technician
- Biochemistry laboratory technologist
- Biochemistry technician (except medical)
- Biochemistry technologist
- Biochemistry technologist (except medical)
- Brewery technician
- Brewery technician - applied chemistry
- Cellulose film solutions tester
- Chemical analysis specialist
- Chemical analyst
- Chemical engineering technician
- Chemical engineering technologist
- Chemical forensic lab analyst
- Chemical laboratory analyst
- Chemical laboratory supervisor
- Chemical laboratory technician
- Chemical laboratory technologist
- Chemical process analyst
- Chemical process technologist
- Chemical processing laboratory tester
- Chemical processing quality control technician
- Chemical processing quality control technologist
- Chemical products quality control technologist
- Chemical research technician
- Chemical research technologist
- Chemical technician
- Chemical technician - heavy water plant and nuclear generating station
- Chemical technologist
- Compressed gases tester
- Crime scene examiner
- Documents examiner - applied chemistry
- Dyeing and finishing technician
- Dyeing and finishing technologist
- Dyeing technician
- Fingerprint identification technician
- Food processing quality control technician
- Food processing quality control technologist
- Food technician
- Food technologist
- Forensic examiner - alcohol
- Forensic handwriting expert
- Forensic laboratory technician
- Forest products technologist
- Formulation technician
- Fuel technician
- Gas chromatographer
- Geochemical technician
- Geochemical technologist
- Home economics technologist
- Industrial hygiene technologist
- Laboratory assistant - applied chemistry
- Laboratory tester
- Laboratory tester - pulp and paper
- Latent fingerprint examiner
- Mass spectrometer technician
- Mass spectrometer technologist
- Mass spectrometry technician
- Master dyer - textiles
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) chemical technician
- Paint technician
- Petrochemical engineering technician
- Petrochemical engineering technologist
- Petrochemical laboratory technologist
- Petroleum processing tester
- Petroleum research technologist
- Petroleum tester
- Pharmaceuticals and toiletries inspector
- Pharmaceuticals inspector
- Pilot plant technician
- Pilot plant technologist
- Plastics and synthetic resins technician
- Polymers tester
- Production technician - pharmaceuticals
- Quality control technician - cannabis
- Quality control technician - chemical processing
- Quality control technician - chemistry
- Quality control technician - food processing
- Quality control technologist - chemical processing
- Quality control technologist - food processing
- Spectroscopic technologist
- Spectroscopist
- Synthetic textiles technician
- Technician - pharmaceutical production
- Textile colour technologist
- Textile dye technician
- Textile dyeing technician
- Titanium pigment test analyst
- Water purification technician
Job Duties
1. Monitor product quality to ensure compliance to standards and specifications.
2. Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical and chemical separation techniques, and microscopy.
3. Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials.
4. Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
5. Provide technical support and assistance to chemists and engineers.
6. Prepare chemical solutions for products and processes following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
7. Maintain, clean, and sterilize laboratory instruments and equipment.
8. Write technical reports or prepare graphs and charts to document experimental results.
9. Order and inventory materials in order to maintain supplies.
10. Develop and conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, and products.
11. Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
12. Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
13. Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
14. Design and fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products and processes.
Education Requirement
1. Chemical technologists usually require completion of a two- or three-year college program in chemical, biochemical or chemical engineering technology or a closely related discipline.
2. Chemical technicians usually require completion of a one- or two-year college program in chemical, biochemical or chemical engineering technology.
3. National certification for chemical technologists and technicians is available through the Canadian Society for Chemical Technology.
4. Certification in chemical engineering technology or in a related field is available through provincial associations of engineering/applied science technologists and technicians and may be required by employers.
5. Chemical technologists and technicians are regulated in Quebec and Alberta.
6. A period of supervised work experience, usually two years, is required before certification.
4 to 8 years experience required 
39,000 CAD to 65,300 CAD P.A. 
Canada
