Job profile: Chemical engineering technician

As a chemical or process engineering technician, you would work with chemical engineers on the research, development and manufacture of products, such as plastics, medicines, foods, textiles and fuel.

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 You could be employed in any area of process engineering, for example, research and development, design and construction of chemical processing plants, or in plant operations and maintenance.

Depending on which part of the plant you worked in, your duties could include:

• helping to design, build or install production plant equipment
• carrying out laboratory experiments to develop new products
• monitoring production processes using measurement and control instruments
• recording data and making adjustments to machinery
• carrying out maintenance checks and making repairs
• making sure safety procedures are followed
• carrying out quality control checks.

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