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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Technician” 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 Technician” 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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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