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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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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