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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Paint Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Paint Tester” 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 Tester” 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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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