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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Analytical Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Analytical Technician” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Analytical Technician” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

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  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Sample crushers
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Meker burners
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Graphing calculators
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Ammeters
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Molecular stills
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Single-pan balances
  • Triple beam balances
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Photo detectors
  • Desktop computers
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Flame photometers
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Turbidimeters
  • Bunsen burners
  • Photocells
  • Automatic burets
  • Fluorimeters
  • Pirani gauges
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Claisen flasks
  • Ball mills
  • Hot air blowers
  • Water aspirators
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Canister gas masks
  • Bell jars
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Polarizers
  • McLeod gauges
  • Infrared lamps
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Steam baths
  • Ruby lasers
  • Distilling condensers
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Dessicators
  • Prisms
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Comparators
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • pH indicators
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Personal computers
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Pull spring balances
  • Viscosity meters
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Multimeters
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Cork borer sets
  • Glass burets
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Muffle furnaces
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Rheometers
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Lecture bottles
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Autotitrators
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Safety glasses
  • Buchner funnels
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Tension gauges
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Heating mantles
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Torsion balances
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Pressure gauges
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • U-tube manometers
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Rotameters
  • Radiation detectors
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Glass tubing
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Lyophilizers
  • Agitation tanks
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Thermocouples
  • Safety gloves
  • Lasers
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Pycnometers
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Mercury barometers
  • Polarimeters
  • Cooling baths
  • Mainframe computers
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Reaction flasks
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Safety goggles
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Finger pumps
  • Nebulizers
  • Ionization gauges
  • Face shields
  • Immersion heaters
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Utility clamps
  • Test tube clamps
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Voltmeters
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Hydrometers
  • Coulometers
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Dye lasers
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Gas burners
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Reflux condensers
  • Filter pumps
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Capillary tubing
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Homogenizers
  • Metering pumps
  • Titrators
  • Drying pistols
  • Differential refractometers
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Monochromators
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Safety showers
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Westphal balances
  • Velometers
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods

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