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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Tester” 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 Tester” 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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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