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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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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