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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemistry 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 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 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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