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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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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