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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Concrete Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Concrete 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%

“Concrete 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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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