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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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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