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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

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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