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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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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  • Thermocouples
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Westphal balances
  • Mainframe computers
  • Titrators
  • Sample crushers
  • Electronic toploading balances
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  • Spectrophotometers
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  • Laboratory tongs
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Lyophilizers
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Pirani gauges
  • High pressure sodium lamps
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  • pH indicators
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Glass burets
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  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
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  • Monochromators
  • Gas chromatography equipment
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  • Gas burners
  • Lecture bottles
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Bunsen burners
  • Distilling condensers
  • Prisms
  • Safety showers
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  • Capillary tubing
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Reaction flasks
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Torsion balances
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
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  • Velometers
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  • Unequal-arm balances
  • U-tube manometers
  • Autotitrators
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  • Aneroid barometers
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Agitation tanks
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Comparators
  • Immersion heaters
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Coulometers
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Molecular stills
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
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  • Bourdon gauges
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  • Photocells
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  • Filter pumps
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  • Bell jars
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  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Graphing calculators
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  • Cartesian manostats
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  • Safety goggles
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  • Differential refractometers
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  • Diffusion pumps
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  • Pull spring balances
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  • Metering pumps
  • Hydrometers

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