Chemical Sciences

Scotland has a world-class reputation for pioneering advances in chemical engineering. This ranges from creating medicine to working out how we can use alternative fuel sources to make our environment greener.

The impact you could make:
- Be part of a team that creates products that we use in everyday life such as medicine, food products and packaging and cosmetics.
- Help Scotland achieve net zero ambitions by developing alternative green resources to fossil fuels.

The opportunities within chemical engineering:
There are many things you could be working on within the industry. From developing and manufacturing cosmetics or soaps or turning waste into products, process, energy or chemicals. There are endless opportunities.

Employment
There are 24,600 people working in the life and chemical sciences industry.*

Job Availability
Between January 2022 and September 2022, there were 3,500 job postings in the Life and Chemical Sciences sector.*

Job Diversity
There are 74 Modern Apprentices in Scotland training in life sciences and related sciences.*

*Skills Sector Assessment 2022