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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Analytical Sampler” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Analytical Sampler” 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 Analytical Sampler” 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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
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  • Glass tubing
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Safety showers
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Filter pumps
  • Torsion balances
  • Pull spring balances
  • Heating mantles
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Molecular stills
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Monochromators
  • Bunsen burners
  • Capillary tubing
  • Test tube clamps
  • Thermocouples
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  • Sample crushers
  • Safety gloves
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  • Buchner funnels
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  • Lecture bottles
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  • Perchloric acid hoods
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  • Ball mills
  • Distilling condensers
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Laboratory balances
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Water aspirators
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Single-pan balances
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Desktop computers
  • Prisms
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Immersion heaters
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Meker burners
  • Infrared lamps
  • Fluorimeters
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Face shields
  • Voltmeters
  • Hot air blowers
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Cooling baths
  • Hydrometers
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Titrators
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Viscosity meters
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Homogenizers
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Coulometers
  • Radiation detectors
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Triple beam balances
  • McLeod gauges
  • Spectrophotometers
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  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Westphal balances
  • Plastic cuvettes
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  • Unequal-arm balances
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  • Ionization gauges
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  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
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  • Velometers
  • Pirani gauges
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Hazardous material protective clothing

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