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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

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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