synthetic materials engineer

Job Zone

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed

Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

RICRealistic · Investigative · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order

• R Realistic6.27
• I Investigative5.75
• C Conventional4.54
• E Enterprising1.85
• A Artistic1.80
• S Social1.02

RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.

Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Chemical Engineers (17-2041.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (20)

ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.

• adjust engineering designs
• analyse production processes for improvement
• basic chemicals
• check quality of raw materials
• chemical processes
• civil engineering
• design engineering components
• design principles
• design process
• handle chemicals
• injection moulding machine parts
• manage environmental impact of operations
• manage processes
• manufacturing processes
• materials engineering
• synthetic materials
• types of plastic
• use hand tools
• work safely with chemicals
• work with chemicals