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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

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

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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