🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Quality Control Laboratory Technician (QC Lab Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Quality Control Laboratory Technician (QC Lab Tech)” 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%

“Quality Control Laboratory Technician (QC Lab Tech)” 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
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Related Occupations & Automation Risk

Economists

AI Risk 63%
Robot Risk 15%

Biochemists and Biophysicists

AI Risk 62%
Robot Risk 47%

Industrial Ecologists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 23%

Geographers

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Environmental Economists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 18%

Atmospheric and Space Scientists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Core Skills & Abilities

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

Alternative Job Titles