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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Laboratory Tester (Chemical Lab Tester)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Laboratory Tester (Chemical Lab Tester)” 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 Laboratory Tester (Chemical Lab Tester)” 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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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