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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Spectroscopist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Spectroscopist” 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%

“Spectroscopist” 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.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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