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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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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