chemical engineer

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The chemical engineer (ingeniera química) designs and runs matter-and-energy transformation processes at industrial scale. Use this Job Dictionary profile to profile chemical processes, hydrometallurgy or food.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • engineering principles
  • engineering processes
  • chemistry
  • analytical chemistry

Skills and competences

  • test chemical samples
  • apply health and safety standards
  • approve engineering design
  • perform scientific research
  • adjust engineering designs
  • forecast organisational risks
  • perform chemical experiments
  • work with chemicals

Transversal competences

  • assess environmental impact

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What to assess for this role

Assess process safety, mass/energy balance and work with operations.

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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.

What does a chemical engineer do?
Optimises reactors, flows and utilities; controls yield, quality and process risk.
Vs process engineer?
They overlap a lot; process engineer may be more cross-industry outside pure chemistry.
What to assess when hiring?
Uptime/yield cases and judgment on process deviations.

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences