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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Technical Staff Member” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Technical Staff Member” 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%

“Technical Staff Member” 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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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