Engineering technicians
Chemical process technician
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +4.4% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Chemical engineering technicians (ISCO 3116). Chemical engineering technicians perform technical tasks to aid in chemical engineering research and in the design, manufacture, construction, operation, maintenance and repair of chemical plant.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
57 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- aggregates and asphalt laboratory technician
- aggregates and bitumen laboratory technician
- asphalt laboratory technician
- asphalt production technical supervisor
- asphalt production technician
- asphalt technician
- bitumen production technician
- bitumen technician
- chemical engineering developer
- chemical engineering technician
- chemical engineering worker
- chemical industry engineering technician
- chemical manufacturing quality assurance officer
- chemical manufacturing quality inspector
- chemical manufacturing quality technician
- chemical manufacturing quality tester
- chemical operations engineering technician
- chemical process engineering technician
- chemical production quality technician
- chemical research technician
- chemicals quality inspector
- chemistry quality control technician
- color kitchen worker
- color sampling technician
- colour kitchen technician
- colour kitchen worker
- colour sampling technician
- colour sampling technicians
- dyer
- hazardous waste disposal technician
- hazardous waste removal technician
- hazardous waste technician
- hazardous waste treatment technician
- laboratory technician, asphalt
- landfill site technician
- leather dyer
- manufacturing quality technician
- manufacturing quality technician chemicals
- materials technician
- pelt dyer
- production chemistry technician
- qc technician chemical manufacturing
- QC technician chemical manufacturing
- road surface laboratory technician
- road surface technician
- site technician
- site technician, asphalt
- tanning solution preparer
- technical supervisor, asphalt production
- toxic waste disposal technician
- toxic waste removal technician
- toxic waste technician
- toxic waste treatment technician
- waste disposal compliance technician
- waste disposal site compliance technician
- waste sortation technician
- waste treatment technician
Training
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Gauges
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.