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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Grey Goods Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Grey Goods Tester” 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%

“Grey Goods Tester” 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

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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

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