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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Plastic Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Plastic 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%

“Plastic 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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