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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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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