4.2 KiB
4.2 KiB
Competences — rubber technologist
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b4e26d7f-475e-4ada-b287-d669de03fb21).
Essential
- adjust engineering designs (skill/competence)
- analyse production processes for improvement (skill/competence)
- analytical chemistry (knowledge)
- basic chemicals (knowledge)
- check quality of raw materials (skill/competence)
- chemical processes (knowledge)
- develop green compounding solutions (skill/competence)
- develop rubber compound formulas (skill/competence)
- handle chemicals (skill/competence)
- manage environmental impact of operations (skill/competence)
- manage rubber products development (skill/competence)
- manufacturing processes (knowledge)
- operate scientific measuring equipment (skill/competence)
- physics (knowledge)
- polymer chemistry (knowledge)
- polymerisation (knowledge)
- propose alternative rubber compound ingredients (skill/competence)
- record test data (skill/competence)
- rubber technology (knowledge)
- synthetic materials (knowledge)
- test chemical samples (skill/competence)
- test materials (skill/competence)
- use hand tools (skill/competence)
- work safely with chemicals (skill/competence)
- write technical reports (skill/competence)
Optional
- adjust the rubber machines (skill/competence)
- analyse stress resistance of materials (skill/competence)
- assist scientific research (skill/competence)
- develop material testing procedures (skill/competence)
- liaise with engineers (skill/competence)
- provide technical expertise (skill/competence)
- quality assurance methodologies (knowledge)
- quality standards (knowledge)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 6 ads, as of 2026-07-19)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- elastomer development — 33 %
- failure analysis — 33 %
- lab sample production — 33 %
- material testing — 33 %
- polymer processing — 33 %
- product development — 33 %
- rubber formulation — 33 %
- rubber compound testing — 33 %
- rubber compounding — 17 %
- technical support — 17 %
- technical communication — 17 %
- root cause analysis — 17 %
- process development — 17 %
- process optimisation — 17 %
- quality management — 17 %
- problem solving — 17 %
- new product assessment — 17 %
- molding processes — 17 %
- materials selection — 17 %
- laboratory management — 17 %
- health and safety compliance — 17 %
- elastomer formulation — 17 %
- complaint resolution — 17 %
- compound troubleshooting — 17 %
- cost estimation — 17 %
- costing analysis — 17 %
- data analysis — 17 %
- data sheet management — 17 %
- design review — 17 %
- troubleshooting — 17 %
Methods
- design review — 33 %
- phased development process — 33 %
- structured training — 17 %
- rubber molding processes — 17 %
- british standards — 17 %
- international standards — 17 %
Responsibilities
- supplier selection — 33 %
- technical literature preparation — 33 %
- compound testing — 33 %
- material selection — 33 %
- product development — 33 %
- prototype testing — 33 %
- quality maintenance — 17 %
- recipe production — 17 %
- record keeping — 17 %
- msds management — 17 %
- problem solving — 17 %
- trial coordination — 17 %
- test sample collection — 17 %
- test specification creation — 17 %
- testing — 17 %
- safety regulation compliance — 17 %
- safety regulation maintenance — 17 %
- sample production — 17 %
- staff development — 17 %
- standard maintenance — 17 %
- equipment calibration — 17 %
- documentation release — 17 %
- material development — 17 %
- laboratory equipment operation — 17 %
- collaboration with teams — 17 %
- compound troubleshooting — 17 %
- compound formulation — 17 %
- customer assistance — 17 %
- cost estimation — 17 %