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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 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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