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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemistry Lab Technician (Chemistry Laboratory Technician)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemistry Lab Technician (Chemistry Laboratory 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%

“Chemistry Lab Technician (Chemistry Laboratory 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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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