# 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)