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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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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