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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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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