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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Engineering Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Engineering Technician” 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 Engineering Technician” 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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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