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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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

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

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

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

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

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