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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Viscosity Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Viscosity Worker” 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%

“Viscosity Worker” 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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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