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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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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