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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Research Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Research Worker” 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 Research Worker” 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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