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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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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