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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Spectrographer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Spectrographer” 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%

“Spectrographer” 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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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