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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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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