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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Dye Lab Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Dye Lab 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%

“Dye Lab 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

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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