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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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Laboratory balances
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  • Polarizers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Water aspirators
  • Thermocouples
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  • Westphal balances
  • Claisen flasks
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • pH indicators
  • Safety glasses
  • Multimeters
  • Mercury barometers
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Dye lasers
  • Bell jars
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Ionization gauges
  • Coulometers
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Electronic toploading balances
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  • Agitation tanks
  • Filter pumps
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Titrators
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  • Rotameters
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  • Aneroid barometers
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  • Desktop computers
  • Torsion balances
  • Utility clamps
  • Pycnometers
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Drying pistols
  • Ball mills
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Cooling baths
  • Glass tubing
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Reflux condensers
  • Canister gas masks
  • Mainframe computers
  • Capillary tubing
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Gravity convection ovens
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  • Velometers
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  • Comparators
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  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
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  • Optical compound microscopes
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  • Radiation detectors
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  • Single-pan balances
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Mass spectrometers
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  • Bunsen burners
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • McLeod gauges
  • Meker burners
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  • Laminar flow burners
  • Rheometers
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  • Laboratory flasks
  • Viscosity meters
  • Face shields
  • Lasers
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  • Hot air blowers
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Organic carbon analyzers
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  • Laboratory tongs
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  • Volumetric flasks
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  • Closed-end manometers
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  • Flame photometers
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  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Buchner funnels
  • Gas burners
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Pull spring balances
  • Safety goggles
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Triple beam balances
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Lyophilizers
  • Test tube clamps
  • Finger pumps

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