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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Materials Analyst” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Materials 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%

“Materials 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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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