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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemistry QC Tech (Chemistry Quality Control 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 QC Tech (Chemistry Quality Control 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 QC Tech (Chemistry Quality Control 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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

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