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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Analyst (Lab Analyst)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Laboratory Analyst (Lab Analyst)” 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%

“Laboratory Analyst (Lab Analyst)” 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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