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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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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