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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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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