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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Polymer Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Polymer Tester” 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%

“Polymer Tester” 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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