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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Inorganic Chemical Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Inorganic Chemical 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%

“Inorganic Chemical 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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