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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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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