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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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

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

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