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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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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  • Digital handheld thermometers
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  • Gas leak detectors
  • Pressure gauges
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Photo detectors
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Ammeters
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Polarizers
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Safety goggles
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Flame photometers
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Finger pumps
  • Reaction flasks
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Rheometers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Nebulizers
  • Thermocouples
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  • Lyophilizers
  • Test tube clamps
  • Plastic cuvettes
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  • Infrared lamps
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Bell jars
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Mainframe computers
  • Ball mills
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Mercury barometers
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Titrators
  • Rotameters
  • Water aspirators
  • Homogenizers
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Voltmeters
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Fluorimeters
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Safety glasses
  • Ionization gauges
  • Photocells
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Turbidimeters
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Personal computers
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Lecture bottles
  • Radiation detectors
  • Autotitrators
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Viscosity meters
  • Agitation tanks
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Automatic burets
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Immersion heaters
  • Dessicators
  • Reflux condensers
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Triple beam balances
  • U-tube manometers
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Steam baths
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Heating mantles
  • Desktop computers
  • Face shields
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • pH indicators
  • Differential refractometers
  • Canister gas masks
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Gas burners
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
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  • Deuterium lamps
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Single-pan balances
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  • Safety showers
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  • Buchner funnels
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  • Comparators
  • Polarimeters
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  • Dissolved oxygen meters
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  • Velometers
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  • Lasers
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  • Torsion balances
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Mass spectrometers
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  • Westphal balances
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • McLeod gauges
  • Glass burets

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