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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Assayer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Assayer” 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%

“Assayer” 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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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