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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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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