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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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

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