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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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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