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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Paint Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Paint Technician” 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%

“Paint Technician” 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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

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

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