Design chemical plant equipment and devise processes for manufacturing chemicals and products, such as gasoline, synthetic rubber, plastics, detergents, cement, paper, and pulp, by applying principles and technology of chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Other names for Chemical Engineers: Absorption and Adsorption Engineer, Automation Engineer, Biochemical Engineer, Blending Coordinator, Chemical Engineer, Chemical Process Control, Design, or Development Engineer, Chemical Research Engineer, Chemical Test Engineer, Design Engineer, Development Engineer, Engineer, Engineering Scientist, Explosives Engineer, Fuels Engineer, Gas Combustion Engineer, Lubricating Engineer, Monomer Recovery Supervisor, Nanotechnologist, Pharmaceutical Process Engineer, Plant Engineer, Plastics Engineer, Poly Area Supervisor, Polymerization Supervisor, Process Control Engineer, Process Development Engineer, Process Engineer, Processes Chemical Design Engineer, Project Engineer, Refinery Process Engineer, Research Chemical Engineer, Sand Analyst, Sand Technologist, Scientist, Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE), Technical Supervisor, Validation Engineer, Validation Specialist, Weapons Designer, Weapons Engineer,

• Perform tests throughout stages of production to determine degree of control over variables, including temperature, density, specific gravity, and pressure.
• Develop safety procedures to be employed by workers operating equipment or working in close proximity to on-going chemical reactions.
• Determine most effective arrangement of operations such as mixing, crushing, heat transfer, distillation, and drying.
• Prepare estimate of production costs and production progress reports for management.
• Direct activities of workers who operate or who are engaged in constructing and improving absorption, evaporation, or electromagnetic equipment.
• Perform laboratory studies of steps in manufacture of new product and test proposed process in small scale operation such as a pilot plant.
• Develop processes to separate components of liquids or gases or generate electrical currents using controlled chemical processes.
• Conduct research to develop new and improved chemical manufacturing processes.
• Design measurement and control systems for chemical plants based on data collected in laboratory experiments and in pilot plant operations.
• Design and plan layout of equipment.

• Mixers or agitators
• Scanning probe microscopes
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Laboratory mixers
• Catalytic combustion analyzers
• Chromatographic scanners
• Distillation pipings or columns or fittings
• Bi distillation units
• Laboratory filtration hardware or accessories
• Chemical absorption gas analyzers
• Heat exchangers
• Laboratory evaporators
• Freezedryers or lyophilzers
• Mass spectrometers
• Laboratory mixers
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Ultrafiltration equipment
• Laboratory mixers
• Microcontrollers
• Goggles
• Dewatering equipment
• Spectrometers
• Vacuum pumps
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems
• Wet scrubbers

Project management software

Office suite software

Financial analysis software

Graphics or photo imaging software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Desktop publishing software

Data base user interface and query software

Development environment software

Object or component oriented development software

Computer aided design CAD software

Analytical or scientific software

Industrial control software