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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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

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  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
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  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Lecture bottles
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • McLeod gauges
  • Fluorimeters
  • Steam baths
  • Glass burets
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Dye lasers
  • Capillary tubing
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Ball mills
  • Homogenizers
  • Viscosity meters
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Buchner funnels
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Polarimeters
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Laboratory flasks
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  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Laboratory balances
  • Ionization gauges
  • Rheometers
  • Metering pumps
  • Lyophilizers
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Voltmeters
  • Claisen flasks
  • Torsion balances
  • Triple beam balances
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Safety showers
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  • Infrared lamps
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Ruby lasers
  • Safety glasses
  • Dessicators
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Reflux condensers
  • Turbidimeters
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Agitation tanks
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Immersion heaters
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Pressure gauges
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Heating mantles
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Gas burners
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Radiation detectors
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Face shields
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Pull spring balances
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • pH indicators
  • Laboratory tongs
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  • U-tube manometers
  • Bunsen burners
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Multimeters
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Coulometers
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Single-pan balances
  • Hot air blowers
  • Laboratory blenders
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Prisms
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Utility clamps
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  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Filter pumps
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  • Desktop computers
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  • Differential refractometers
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
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  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
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  • Meker burners
  • Personal computers
  • Cork borer sets
  • Graphing calculators
  • Automatic burets
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  • Gas leak detectors
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  • Comparators
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Photocells
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Rotameters
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Cooling baths
  • Glass tubing
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Molecular stills
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
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  • Lasers
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  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Pirani gauges
  • Autotitrators
  • Westphal balances
  • Thermocouples
  • Velometers
  • Safety gloves
  • Laboratory drying ovens

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