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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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

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  • Velometers
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  • Canister gas masks
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Water aspirators
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • McLeod gauges
  • Personal computers
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Laboratory balances
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Hydrometers
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Dye lasers
  • Polarimeters
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Molecular stills
  • Safety glasses
  • Safety gloves
  • Bunsen burners
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Dessicators
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Drying pistols
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Automated polarimeters
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  • Single-pan balances
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  • Exhaust hoods
  • Buchner funnels
  • Capillary tubing
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Nebulizers
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • pH indicators
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Pull spring balances
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Monochromators
  • Viscosity meters
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Fluorimeters
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Photocells
  • Automatic burets
  • Ionization gauges
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Pressure gauges
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Hot air blowers
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Graphing calculators
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Desktop computers
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Flame photometers
  • Tension gauges
  • Westphal balances
  • Torsion balances
  • Utility clamps
  • Pirani gauges
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Safety showers
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Glass burets
  • Lecture bottles
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Meker burners
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Rotameters
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Agitation tanks
  • Coulometers
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
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  • Radiation detectors
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  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
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  • Ruby lasers
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  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Mercury barometers
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  • Rheometers
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Test tube clamps
  • Lasers
  • Polarizers
  • Mortars and pestles
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  • Face shields
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  • Radioisotope fume hoods
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  • Titrators
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  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Bubble flow meters
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  • Triple beam balances
  • U-tube manometers
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  • Ultracentrifuges
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  • Glass tubing
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  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Multimeters
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Thermocouples
  • Infrared lamps
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Sample crushers
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Safety goggles
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Immersion heaters
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Gas leak detectors

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