Natural and Physical Science Professionals nec
What the work is
This is the official catch-all entry for other natural and physical science professionals not listed separately. Tasks vary, so look at the related occupations below for what similar work involves.
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a conservation studio for objects, a weather forecasting centre and a physics laboratory. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A faded banner is stabilised and the colours come back enough to read its story
- Your forecast gives a town enough warning to prepare, and they do
- An experiment that has failed for months finally gives a clean, surprising result
Hard days
- A forecast you agonised over turns out wrong and the public remembers
- An object arrives in worse shape than anyone told you
- Months of careful work that produces a result of no change at all
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 244999, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.