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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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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