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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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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