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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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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