rubber technologist

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

IRCInvestigative · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order

• I Investigative6.59
• R Realistic5.82
• C Conventional4.15
• A Artistic2.17
• E Enterprising1.86
• S Social1.39

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 Materials Scientists (19-2032.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (25)

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
• analytical chemistry
• basic chemicals
• check quality of raw materials
• chemical processes
• develop green compounding solutions
• develop rubber compound formulas
• handle chemicals
• manage environmental impact of operations
• manage rubber products development
• manufacturing processes
• operate scientific measuring equipment
• physics
• polymer chemistry
• polymerisation
• propose alternative rubber compound ingredients
• record test data
• rubber technology
• synthetic materials
• test chemical samples
• test materials
• use hand tools
• work safely with chemicals
• write technical reports