Jobs / Management and business operations / 11-9041.01
Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers
Define, plan, or execute biofuels/biodiesel research programs that evaluate alternative feedstock and process technologies with near-term commercial potential.
- US jobs
- 220,260 (SOC 11-9041 group, "Architectural and Engineering Managers")
- Median wage
- $171,270 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of biofuels/biodiesel technology and product development managers?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Management and business operations: Some tasks (first measured in the last 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: SOP-Bench, 72.4% of tasks completed.
6% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark (figures for the SOC 11-9041 group).
- 16%Develop operational or technical procedures or standardsNot measured
- 9%Evaluate green technologies or processesNot measured
- 7%Analyze data to improve operationsNot measured
- 7%Direct organizational operations, activities, or proceduresNot measured
- 5%Develop sustainable organizational or business policies or practicesNot measured
- 5%Direct construction or extraction activitiesNot measured
- 4%Authorize business activities or transactionsNot measured
- 4%Supervise personnel activitiesNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
- 45.9%Claude Opus 4.6 · 16 Mar 2026Emerging
- 64.8%Claude Code + Opus 5.5 (max) · 6 Oct 2026Strong
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Design or conduct applied biodiesel or biofuels research projects on topics, such as transport, thermodynamics, mixing, filtration, distillation, fermentation, extraction, and separation.
- Analyze data from biofuels studies, such as fluid dynamics, water treatments, or solvent extraction and recovery processes.
- Prepare, or oversee the preparation of, experimental plans for biofuels research or development.
- Provide technical or scientific guidance to technical staff in the conduct of biofuels research or development.
- Propose new biofuels products, processes, technologies or applications based on findings from applied biofuels or biomass research projects.
- Conduct experiments on biomass or pretreatment technologies.
- Prepare biofuels research and development reports for senior management or technical professionals.
- Develop lab scale models of industrial scale processes, such as fermentation.
- Oversee biodiesel/biofuels prototyping or development projects.
- Conduct experiments to test new or alternate feedstock fermentation processes.
- Develop methods to estimate the efficiency of biomass pretreatments.
- Perform protein functional analysis and engineering for processing of feedstock and creation of biofuels.
Other job titles for this occupation (18)
Analytical Research Program Manager · Biodiesel Division Manager · Biofuels Manager · Business Development and New Technology Manager · Laboratory Manager (Lab Manager) · Project Development Director · Biodiesel Engineering Manager · Biodiesel Product Development Manager · Biodiesel Product Manager · Biodiesel Technology Development Manager · Biodiesel Technology Manager · Biofuels Engineering Manager · Biofuels Product Development Manager · Biofuels Product Manager · Biofuels Technology Development Manager · Biofuels Technology Manager · Fermentation Manager · Technology Development Owner