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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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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