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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Measurement Technician (Measurement Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Measurement Technician (Measurement 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%

“Measurement Technician (Measurement 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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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