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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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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