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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Dye Expert” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Dye Expert” 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%

“Dye Expert” 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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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