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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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

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