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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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

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