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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Natural Gas Technician (Natural Gas Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Natural Gas Technician (Natural Gas 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%

“Natural Gas Technician (Natural Gas 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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