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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.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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