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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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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