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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Control Analyst” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Control Analyst” 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%

“Control Analyst” 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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