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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.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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