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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Drug Testing Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Drug Testing 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%

“Drug Testing 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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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  • Unequal-arm balances
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  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Meker burners
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  • Safety gloves
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  • Pycnometers
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  • Polarimeters
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  • Comparators
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Filter pumps
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Rotameters
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Reaction flasks
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • U-tube manometers
  • Immersion heaters
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Canister gas masks
  • Personal computers
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Buchner funnels
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Single-pan balances
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Metering pumps
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  • Lyophilizers
  • Exhaust hoods
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  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Thermocouples
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Coulometers
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Heating mantles
  • Westphal balances
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Safety glasses
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Sample crushers
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Cooling baths
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Photo detectors
  • Glass tubing
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Ammeters
  • Triple beam balances
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Desktop computers
  • Drying pistols
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Bell jars
  • Infrared lamps
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Claisen flasks
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  • Mortars and pestles
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
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  • Aneroid barometers
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  • Pull spring balances
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  • Multimeters
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  • Torsion balances
  • Rheometers
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  • pH indicators
  • Radiation detectors
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  • Glass burets
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  • Titrators
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  • Velometers
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  • Ultracentrifuges
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  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Reflux condensers
  • Graphing calculators
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Homogenizers
  • Mercury vapor lamps
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  • Refrigerated coolers
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  • Steam baths
  • Ball mills
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Prisms
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Autotitrators

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