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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Concrete Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Concrete Tester” 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 Tester” 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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or 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.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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