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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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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