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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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