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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemist Helper” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemist Helper” 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%

“Chemist Helper” 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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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