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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 %