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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Pyrotechnist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Pyrotechnist” 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%

“Pyrotechnist” 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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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

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