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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.

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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