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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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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