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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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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