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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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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