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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Analyst” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Analyst” 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%

“Chemical Analyst” 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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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