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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Process Technician (Chemical Process 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 Process Technician (Chemical Process 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 Process Technician (Chemical Process 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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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