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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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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