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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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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