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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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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