Thinking of jobs in functional terms provides a way of organizing the multitude of job titles you will encounter in company literature and employment ads. Thinking in terms of functions will, therefore, allow you to clearly indicate to potential employers exactly what you want to do regardless of what the job title is. Designs and performs experiments and interprets the data obtained. Invents and creates new ways of developing products, controlling pollution, reducing safety, and health hazards, and natural resources. After construction they may assist in equipment testing, operator training and plant start-up.
Primary interest is in the economic and safe production of a product.
Introduces new products to customers and assesses why some products do better than others in the market place. Devises techniques to recover usable materials from waste products. Develops methods to reduce the pollution created during the manufacturing of a product. Designs waste storage and treatment facilities as well as pollution control strategies for plant operations. Check the Dictionary of Occupational Titles under section 008 for additional related careers.