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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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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