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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Landfill Gas Technician (Landfill Gas Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Landfill Gas Technician (Landfill Gas Tech)” 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%

“Landfill Gas Technician (Landfill Gas Tech)” 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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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