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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Dependency Technician (Chemical Dependency Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Dependency Technician (Chemical Dependency Tech)” 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 Dependency Technician (Chemical Dependency Tech)” 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

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