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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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

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

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