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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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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  • Fluid scintillation counters
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  • Single-pan balances
  • McLeod gauges
  • Prisms
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Safety goggles
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  • Bell jars
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  • Graphite furnaces
  • Rheometers
  • Sample crushers
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Personal computers
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  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Drying pistols
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Mercury vapor lamps
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  • Evaporator rotators
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  • Safety gloves
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  • Buchner funnels
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Multimeters
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  • Ball mills
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Torsion balances
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Rotameters
  • Glass burets
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Coulometers
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
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  • Muffle furnaces
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Automatic burets
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Metering pumps
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Bunsen burners
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Voltmeters
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Photo detectors
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Fluorimeters
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Hot air blowers
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
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  • Electronic toploading balances
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  • Radioisotope fume hoods
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  • Titrators
  • Ruby lasers
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  • Turbidimeters
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Meker burners
  • Claisen flasks
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Agitation tanks
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  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Lyophilizers
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  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
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  • Radiation detectors
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  • Safety showers
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  • Diffusion pumps
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  • Pressure gauges
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  • Cork borer sets
  • Water aspirators
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Hydrometers
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  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Homogenizers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Triple beam balances
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Glass tubing
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • U-tube manometers
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  • Gas burners
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Mercury barometers
  • Photocells
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Organic carbon analyzers
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  • Reflux condensers
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Pycnometers
  • Heating mantles
  • Comparators
  • Safety glasses
  • Closed-end manometers
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  • Bourdon gauges
  • Molecular stills
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Graphing calculators
  • Distilling condensers
  • Dye lasers
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors

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