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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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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

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