5.1 KiB
5.1 KiB
Competences — chemical metallurgist
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/27eb624c-6171-4c71-aa71-bb21e83381d4).
Essential
- alloys of precious metals (knowledge)
- apply health and safety standards (skill/competence)
- assess suitability of metal types for specific application (skill/competence)
- chemical processes (knowledge)
- chemical technologies in metal manufacture (knowledge)
- conduct metallurgical structural analysis (skill/competence)
- develop new installations (skill/competence)
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation (skill/competence)
- ferrous metal processing (knowledge)
- join metals (skill/competence)
- manipulate metal (skill/competence)
- metal and metal ore products (knowledge)
- metal forming technologies (knowledge)
- monitor manufacturing quality standards (skill/competence)
- non-ferrous metal processing (knowledge)
- oxidation (knowledge)
- perform sample testing (skill/competence)
- precious metal processing (knowledge)
- precious metals (knowledge)
- prepare samples for testing (skill/competence)
- prepare scientific reports (skill/competence)
- types of metal (knowledge)
- work in metal manufacture teams (skill/competence)
Optional
- ensure public safety and security (skill/competence)
- extract materials from furnace (skill/competence)
- extract products from moulds (skill/competence)
- innovation processes (knowledge)
- install monitors for process control (skill/competence)
- interpret extraction data (skill/competence)
- liaise with quality assurance (skill/competence)
- materials engineering (knowledge)
- monitor extraction logging operations (skill/competence)
- physics (knowledge)
- prepare extraction proposals (skill/competence)
- process incident reports for prevention (skill/competence)
- separate metals from ores (skill/competence)
- test raw minerals (skill/competence)
- types of metal manufacturing processes (knowledge)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 5 ads, as of 2026-07-10)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- data analysis — 100 %
- experimental design — 40 %
- hydrometallurgy — 40 %
- mass balance — 40 %
- leaching — 20 %
- materials science — 20 %
- materials testing — 20 %
- metallurgy — 20 %
- microstructural characterization — 20 %
- mineral processing — 20 %
- powder metallurgy — 20 %
- problem solving — 20 %
- process control — 20 %
- process engineering — 20 %
- property analysis — 20 %
- pyrometallurgy — 20 %
- flotation — 20 %
- grinding optimization — 20 %
- heat transfer modeling — 20 %
- experimental planning — 20 %
- defect analysis — 20 %
- electrochemical processes — 20 %
- energy balance — 20 %
- additive manufacturing — 20 %
- alloy development — 20 %
- casting operations — 20 %
- chemical analysis — 20 %
- stoichiometry calculations — 20 %
- troubleshooting — 20 %
Methods
- rapid and complete electrochemical reduction (RACER) — 20 %
- root cause analysis — 20 %
- root cause investigation — 20 %
- six sigma — 20 %
- solvent extraction — 20 %
- spc — 20 %
- sqc — 20 %
- competitive technical benchmarking — 20 %
- continuous improvement — 20 %
- continuous process — 20 %
- design of experiments — 20 %
- fmea — 20 %
- hydrometallurgy — 20 %
- finite element analysis — 20 %
- process simulation — 20 %
- process modelling — 20 %
- precipitation — 20 %
- leaching — 20 %
- lean manufacturing — 20 %
Responsibilities
- data analysis — 40 %
- data collection — 20 %
- data presentation — 20 %
- co-product recovery testwork — 20 %
- client engagement — 20 %
- casting program oversight — 20 %
- alloy development — 20 %
- apparatus maintenance — 20 %
- bench-scale experimentation — 20 %
- bimetallic casting management — 20 %
- laboratory management — 20 %
- feedstock characterization — 20 %
- equipment building — 20 %
- experiment execution — 20 %
- material evaluation — 20 %
- materials testing — 20 %
- metallurgical test work — 20 %
- operational issue resolution — 20 %
- patent contribution — 20 %
- performance indicator creation — 20 %
- process design collaboration — 20 %
- procedure refinement — 20 %
- process parameter assessment — 20 %
- process refinement — 20 %
- process implementation — 20 %
- product innovation — 20 %
- quality system verification — 20 %
- safety compliance — 20 %
- report preparation — 20 %
- research communication — 20 %
- technical authority — 20 %
- technical documentation — 20 %
- technical report drafting — 20 %