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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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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