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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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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