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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 technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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