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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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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