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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Gas Technician (Gas Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Gas Technician (Gas Tech)” 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%

“Gas Technician (Gas Tech)” 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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

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